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Hieronymus Fabricius

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hieronymus Fabricius , 1537-1619, Italian anatomist; pupil and successor of Fallopius and teacher of William Harvey at Padua. He was a surgeon, an embryologist, and an anatomist; he described the venous valves but did not fully understand their function. Bibliography: See his De venarum ostiolis (1603; facsimile ed., with introduction by K. J. Franklin, 1933). Author not available, FABRICIUS, HIERONYMUS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Hieronymus Fabricius (ab Aquapendente)
...vocal organ and to demonstrate that the pupil of the eye changes size. Hieronymus Fabricius (ab Aquapendente) Hieronymus Fabricius (ab Aquapendente) Hieronymus Fabricius (ab Aquapendente) Read more
William Harvey
...Harvey's elucidation of blood circulation overturned the work of Galen and advanced that of Andreas Vesalius and Hieronymus Fabricius . To reach his conclusions, Harvey depended on his own observations and reasoning, numerous animal dissections... Read more

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; Births: Sir Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur), soldier and politician, 1364; Pietro Bembo, cardinal and theologian, 1470; Hieronymus Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), physician, 1537; William Thornton, architect, 1759; Honore de Balzac (Balssa), novelist, 1799... Read more
Nasogastric tubes: an historical context.(Clinical Practice)
; ...feeding (Boyes & Kruse, 1992; Gharib et al., 1996). Fabricius ab Aquapendente, who was born in Italy in 1537 and died in 1619, was a professor of anatomy and surgery (Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, 2005). No further detail is provided... Read more
Civility, comportment, and the anatomy theater: Girolamo Fabrici and his medical students in Renaissance Padua.
; ...institutional support, the research agenda, and the established reputation of the leading anatomist, Girolamo Fabrici (Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente, 1533-1619) and the construction of the permanent anatomy theater (1594-95). Each factor played... Read more
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; ...actor, 1917. Deaths: Henry VI, King of England, murdered, 1471; Hernando de Soto, soldier and explorer, 1542; Hieronymus Fabricius, physician, 1619; Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, historian and poet, 1647; James Graham, First Marquess of Montrose... Read more

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