Twelve Catholic men of science / edited by Sir Bertram Windle.

  • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Date:
1912
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Credit: Twelve Catholic men of science / edited by Sir Bertram Windle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (1514-1564) BY JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., L.H.D., Sc.D., Dean and Professor of the History of Medicine and of Nervous Diseases at Fordham University School of Medicine, New York. Properly to appreciate the career of Vesalius, who so eminently deserves the title of Father of Modern Anatomy which subsequent generations, and especially our own, have generally accorded him, it is extremely important to recall that his life falls in the midst of the period that is usually spoken of as the Renaissance. He is a striking example of the power of accomplishment that came to so many at this wonderful time. Born in 1512, dying in 1564, the year of Michel Angelo’s death and Shakespeare’s birth, his life occurs just in the midst of the great period. Among his contemporaries, besides Michel Angelo, were such men as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Ariosto, Rabelais, Montaigne; while Camoens, and even Tasso and Cervantes, as well as Lope de Vega, were growing to manhood before his death. There are many others in his time whose names we scarcely recall in this company, though had their careers fallen on any other time they would seem bright particular stars because of the brilliancy of their accomplishment. The names that we have mentioned are those which are likely to occur whenever a reasonably well-read person thinks of the Renaissance. They are the painters, sculptors, architects, and writers of the time. For most
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