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De Formato Foetu (c. 1600), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 27, 2008
The embryological treatise De formato foetu (The Formed Fetus) was written by anatomist and embryologist Girolamo Fabrici. There is no conclusive…
LiteratureFabricius, ab Aquapendente, approximately 1533-1619FetusPublicationsAnatomy
De Formatione Ovi et Pulli (1621), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Sep 30, 2008
The embryological treatise De formatione ovi et pulli (On the Formation of the Egg and of the Chick) was written by anatomist and embryologist…
LiteraturePublicationsOvaAnatomy
John Hunter (1728–1793)
By: Nevada Wagoner
| Published: Feb 17, 2017
John Hunter studied human reproductive anatomy, and in eighteenth century England, performed one of the earliest described cases of artificial…
Artificial InseminationDeadBody snatchingPregnancyAnatomy
Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 26, 2008
Girolamo Fabrici, known as Hieronymus Fabricius in Latin, was given the surname Aquapendente from the city where he was born, near Orvieto, Italy.…
PeopleBiographyFetusAnatomy
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
By: Nicole Erjavic
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
Andreas Vesalius, also called Andries van Wesel, studied anatomy during the sixteenth century in Europe. Throughout his career, Vesalius thoroughly…
AnatomyPhysiologyHuman Dissection
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 22, 2014
In eighteenth century Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied how individuals within a species vary, and to explain such variations, he proposed…
AnthropologyAnatomy, ComparativeVariation (Biology)EmbryosDevelopmental Biology