Technology in the Elizabethan Era was comprised of many different categories, from the telescopes created by Galileo to different and more advanced weapon and war technology.
As these separate categories of technology flourished and grew with the age, the medicinal technology advanced as well. In fact, the standard knowledge of the human body and how it functioned was propelled forward in the Elizabethan Era, thanks to the famous scientist André Vésale, more commonly known as Andreas Vesalius.
Andreas Vesalius is most well known for his marvel in the world of anatomy, his book De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). This was by-far his greatest feat in his lifetime. Vesalius was a great contributor to the field of anatomy, and his study of the human body was so great that in order to fit all of the information he had discovered and learned, he wrote seven different books on the subject, detailing every single part of the human body and its function. He published all seven books in the De Humani Corporis Fabrica.
As these separate categories of technology flourished and grew with the age, the medicinal technology advanced as well. In fact, the standard knowledge of the human body and how it functioned was propelled forward in the Elizabethan Era, thanks to the famous scientist André Vésale, more commonly known as Andreas Vesalius.
Andreas Vesalius is most well known for his marvel in the world of anatomy, his book De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). This was by-far his greatest feat in his lifetime. Vesalius was a great contributor to the field of anatomy, and his study of the human body was so great that in order to fit all of the information he had discovered and learned, he wrote seven different books on the subject, detailing every single part of the human body and its function. He published all seven books in the De Humani Corporis Fabrica.
Genre: Expository Writing Parenthetical Citation: ("A Muscleman from De Humani Corporis Fabrica." Medical and Historical Library. Yale University, n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. )
A photo of the well known and famous book written by Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica. This page specifically illustrates one of the famous "muscle-men", drawn by Vesalius himself. He used these drawings throughout the book series to show how the body and it's muscles contorted and twisted to allow for the varieties of movement humans can perform. (Vesalius, tr. Richardson)
The Youtube video linked above leads to a video of a professor highlighting De Humani Corporis Fabrica. The video gives information on how the book was made, and it even proceeds to flip through some of the pages in the book.