Mondino to Vesalius

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  • Jan 1, 1270

    Mondino born in Bologna, Italy

    (specific date unknown) Mondino born in Bologna, Italy. His father and grandfather were both pharmacists (SIRASI, p146), and he had an uncle (Luzio) who was a professor of Medicine.
  • Aug 14, 1290

    Mondino graduated from the University of Bologna in the Colleges of Medicine and Philosophy

  • Aug 14, 1306

    Mondino is University lecturer on practical medicine and surgery

    continues through 1324
  • Aug 14, 1315

    Mondino performed the first recorded public dissection

  • Mondino writes Anathomia corporis humani
    Aug 14, 1316

    Mondino writes Anathomia corporis humani

  • Aug 14, 1326

    Mondino dies in Bologna

  • Aug 14, 1478

    Mondino's Anathomia corporis humani is published for the first time

  • Dec 13, 1514

    Vesalius born in Brussels, Belgium

    Vesalius born December 13 in Brussels, Belgium to a family of physicians (great-grandfather, grandfather were physicians; father was an apothecary)
  • Aug 14, 1528

    Vesalius begins college at University of Louvain studying the arts

  • Aug 14, 1533

    Vesalius to University of Paris, studying medicine

  • Aug 14, 1536

    Vesalius returns to Louvain (leaves Paris because of unrest in city), performs the first public dissection in 18 years

  • Aug 14, 1537

    Vesalius receives his doctorate from the University of Padua

  • Aug 14, 1538

    Vesalius publishes Tabulae Anatomicae Sex - six large illustrated anatomical tables

  • Aug 14, 1539

    a Paduan judge makes bodies of executed criminals available to Vesalius for dissection, which allows Vesalius to compile a vast series of detailed anatomical drawings

  • Aug 14, 1540

    After Vesalius discovers Galens writings are all based on animal anatomy, and that he never dissected a human (it was banned in his time), he begins writing De humani corporis fabrica

  • the first publishing of Vesalius' seven volume De humani corporis fabrica
    Aug 14, 1543

    the first publishing of Vesalius' seven volume De humani corporis fabrica

  • Aug 14, 1544

    appointed court physician to Emperor Charles V

    continues through 1556
  • Oct 15, 1564

    Vesalius died October 15 on the island of Zakynthos

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