Gabriele Falloppio was an Italian priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius. He was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century, giving his name to the fallopian tube.
Gabriele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppius explaining one of his discoveries to the Cardinal Duke of Ferrara
Andries van Wezel, latinised as Andreas Vesalius, was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, what is considered to be one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Padua (1537–1542) and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.
Portrait by Jan van Calcar
The skeleton of Jakob Karrer, articulated by Vesalius in 1543
The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, who was an important patron of Vesalius
A portrait of Vesalius from his De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543)