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Born February 24, 1697 • Frankfurt an der Oder • Brandenburg
Died September 9, 1770 (aged 73) • Leiden • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study human cardiovascular system • prenatal development

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Albinus, Bernard Siegfried: engraving of human skeleton
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Carl F.W. Ludwig, detail of an engraving
Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist
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Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
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Walther Flemming
German biologist
Franz Joseph Gall, engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after a portrait by Karl Heinrich Rahl, c. 1812
Franz Joseph Gall
German anatomist and physiologist
Karl Gegenbaur.
Karl Gegenbaur
German anatomist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss-born German anatomist and embryologist
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Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
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Johann Friedrich Meckel
German physicist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
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William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
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René Laënnec
French physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Sir Richard Owen
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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