What prior work did Vesalius criticize and correct?
Aristotle's 'Parts of Animals
Plato's 'Timaeus
Descartes' 'Treatise of Man
Galen's 'On Anatomical Procedures
Answer
Galen's'On Anatomical Procedures', written in the 2nd century CE, was the seminal text on human anatomy for over a thousand years. However, Andreas Vesalius, a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, criticized Galen's work for its inaccuracies and reliance on animal studies rather than human dissection.
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