The De Corporis Fabrica, a foundational textbook for physicians who wish to understand Human anatomy in the present age.
Andreas Vesalius was an artist whose book De Corporis Fabrica provides the most accurate depictions of the Human body and anatomy yet produced. In recent centuries, following the Tilean renaissance, the Mechanical outlook in Old World medicine has become the default in Tilea and Estalia, also thanks to Vesalius' works.[1a]
Dissections, too, have become accepted in the southern realms of the Old World, while the Empire's medical establishment still resists this practice, seeing it as a violation of the will of Morr, the god of the dead. Any act of Human dissection in the Empire is considered part of the practice of necromancy, and remains punishable by death. Elements within the medical faculty of the University of Nuln publicly protest this ban; many others simply contravene the law in secret, giving rise to a macabre black market in fresh corpses.[1a]
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Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564), latinised as Andreas Vesalius, was a real anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem ("Seven Books On the Fabric of the Human Body"). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of the modern study of anatomy.