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Andreas was born December 31 1514 to his father Anders van Wessel and mother Isabe Crabbe in Brussels, Habsburg, Nertherlands, which is now known as Belgium
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Andreas Vesalius was forced to leave France due to the relation between France and the Holy Roman Empire, so he returned home and released his findings there.
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Andreas earned his doctorate from the university of Paris. Just after he graduated he would be placed as head professor of surgery and anatomy in the university of Padua.
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Andreas after receiving good comments on his work, so he decided to make second copy to his first book ‘anatomicae’ and in 1538 made the ‘institutions anatomicae’
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In 1540 Andreas received an invitation to be a physican at emperor Charles V after publishing his book
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Andreas found out that Galen’s teachings and thoughts were all incorrect to the human body but instead did it on the animals thinking that humans and animals were the same.
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After he realised that Galen’s finding were incorrect he was determined to study and find out more about the human body. He then finally dessected a human body of a disease falon to learn even more about actually what a human skeleton looks like and how it functions.
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On October 15 1564 Andreas Vesalius died at the age of 49, the cause of his death was a shipwreck around the area of Zakynthos in Greece. He was soon after buried somewhere on the island of korfu.
