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Galen dissects apes, monkeys, cows, dogs; writes treatises on human anatomy.
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275 BCE Herophilus teaches anatomy, Alexandria, Egypt; performs dissections of human bodies.
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Knowledge of Greek anatomical treatises lost to Western Europeans, but retained in Byzantium and the Islamic world. Islamic scholars translate Greek anatomical treatises into Arabic.
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Galen’s anatomical treatises translated from Arabic into Latin, later from the Greek originals.
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First European medical school founded at Salerno, Italy; human bodies are publicly dissected.
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Mondino de’Liuzzi stages public dissections, Bologna, Italy; writes Anatomia.
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Moveable type invented; Gutenberg Bible printed (1455). Copperplate engraving invented.
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First illustrated printed medical book published in Venice, Johannes de Ketham, Fasciculus medicinae.
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Schwammerdam, Ruysch and others start making anatomical specimens and museums.
Bidloo starts movement toward greater anatomical realism.
First art academies founded; anatomy is a key part of the curriculum. -
Anatomy plays an important role in medical education and research.