Used paper postage stamp from Belgium with a likeness of Andreas Vesalius holding an arm; dark yellow green ink; designers: Jean De Bast (E) Jean Malvaux; perforations: comb 11 1/2; printing: photogravure and Recess; face value:
50 c - Belgian centime.
Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564), latinised as Andreas Vesalius (/v 'se li s/),[a] was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), what is considered to be one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Padua (1537–1542) and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.
Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist who questioned the traditional doctrines of Aristotle and Galen and wrote "De humani corporis fabica" in 1543 ("Of what the human body is made")