1. A surgeon in Brussels called anDreas Vesalius and a French surgeon called Ambroise Pare both studied anatomy in the 16th century.

2. Vesalius - an online graphical resource for the medical and surgical communities including anatomical and surgical images, and short educational narratives designed for online reference and study.

3. The first contest of the scientific revolution was fought by Paracelsus, well ahead of the more famous initiatives of Vesalius and Copernicus.

4. Modern medicine began in 1543 with the publication of the first complete textbook of human anatomy, De Humanis Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564).

5. Bacon appears not to have known of the work of Vesalius, the pioneer of modern anatomy, or of Gilbert, whose work on magnetism brilliantly illustrated inductive method.