Fathers of Biology
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Again, when Vesaliusshowed that Galen was wrong in describing the human femur and humerus asgreatly curved, Sylvius explained the discrepancy by saying that thewearing of narrow garments by the moderns had straightened the limbs.
Through these attacks, however, the writings of Vesalius fell intosomewhat bad odour in the court; for in that very superstitious agethere was a kind of vague dread felt of reading the works of a managainst whom such serious charges of arrogance and impiety were brough...t. And so it came about that when he received the summons to take up hisresidence permanently at Madrid, and the orthodoxy of the day seemed forthe moment to triumph, in a fit of proud indignation, he burned all hismanuscripts; destroying a huge volume of annotations upon Galen; a wholebook of medical formulæ; many original notes on drugs; the copy of Galenfrom which he lectured, and which was covered with marginal notes of newobservations that had occurred to him while demonstrating; and theparaphrases of the books of Rhases, in which the knowledge of theArabian was collated with that of the Greeks and others.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Again, when Vesaliusshowed that Galen was wrong in describing the human femur and humerus asgreatly curved, Sylvius explained the discrepancy by saying that thewearing of narrow garments by the moderns had straightened the limbs.
Through these attacks, however, the writings of Vesalius fell intosomewhat bad odour in the court; for in that very superstitious agethere was a kind of vague dread felt of reading the works of a managainst whom such serious charges of arrogance and impiety were brough...t. And so it came about that when he received the summons to take up hisresidence permanently at Madrid, and the orthodoxy of the day seemed forthe moment to triumph, in a fit of proud indignation, he burned all hismanuscripts; destroying a huge volume of annotations upon Galen; a wholebook of medical formulæ; many original notes on drugs; the copy of Galenfrom which he lectured, and which was covered with marginal notes of newobservations that had occurred to him while demonstrating; and theparaphrases of the books of Rhases, in which the knowledge of theArabian was collated with that of the Greeks and others.
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