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Did you know...
Andreas Vesalius resurrected the practice of human dissection even though the Catholic
Church banned it. He discovered that men and woman had the same amount of ribs cutting
out the corpses and analyzing the inside. It is important now days because specialized doctors
are able to know the skeletal system and the arrangement of the bones inside us.
He wrote a textbook on human anatomy called De Humani Corporis Fabrica. The book
showed all the muscular system in the human body.
Paracelsus was the first man to state that what makes a man ill also
cures him. Thanks to that achievement, medicines exist, he
discovered to use poison to cure some kinds of illness.
He´s also known for discovering ‘laudanum’ which is an alcoholic
herbal preparation. This helps now days as a narcotic painkiller; it
helps people suffer less when they have some sort of illness.
He named the element ZINC in the periodic table, in which he
found al zinc materials are pointer, this helps our society now a days
because ZINC is a very important element because large quantities
of zinc are used to produce die-castings which are important in the
automobile, electrical and hardware industries.
Anton Van Leuwenhoek started as an apprentice in a dry
goods store where magnifying glasses were used to count
the threads in cloth, now he is considered the father of
microscopy, his microscopes change the way people saw
biology, seeing that there were many living things that the
naked eye could not see.
He did not invent the microscope, he only improved it and
by doing that he change how we saw ourselves and the
world that surrounds us.
He was the first person to see single cell microscopic
organisms, he was the one who discovered bacteria,
parasitic microscopic protist, blood cells, sperm cells, egg
cells and blood cells.
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