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Vesalius & Harvey
Two blows to Galen: Vesalius's 1543 Fabrica built on human dissection, and William Harvey's 1628 proof by measurement that blood circulates.
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Prereqs: Hippocrates & Galen. Next: Germ theory (Pasteur, Koch). Sources: Vesalius, *De humani corporis fabrica* (1543); Harvey, *De Motu Cordis* (1628); Roy Porter, *The Greatest Benefit to Mankind* (1997).Next: 1. Vesalius