–He assembled the first human skeleton from cadavers and start the whole human dissection thing.
•Coroner’s use the human skeleton and this procedure of human dissection every day to perform autopsy’s on people who have passed away for several different reasons.
•Based on his work, he wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) which was the most accurate and comprehensive anatomical text to date and included accurate (and beautiful) illustrations. Vesalius's work discredited long held beliefs about human anatomy put forth by Galen over 1,000 years earlier.
•Vesalius's precise observation, emphasis on the participation of students in dissection lectures, and anatomically correct textbooks helped to revolutionized medicine. Vesalius contributed to developing life saving medical strategies we use today for numerous reasons. 8.) What were his individual failures? •Although his work affected biology as much as it did make him famous, it brought him a lot of trouble! The people he was enemies with incriminated him of snatching boding for dissecting, and he was also incriminated of religious heresy (having an opinion in opposition to religious beliefs). At one point, he became so angry about what was going on, he eventually gave his studies all together. Eventually, he was given a good position at the royal court, but was ordered to make a pilgrimage, or journey, to the Holy Land (the Middle East) to make up for his heresies. It all came to a close when he died off the coast of Greece when his ship got wrecked in a storm.