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The work of Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius read Galen's ideas and became Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua in Italy. He stole the skeleton of a convict and began to challenge Galen's ideas on anatomy. Some people believed he was wrong to question the faith in the ancients.
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