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Was Vesalius, Paré or Harvey the most in influential with their discoveries in Renaissance Times?  

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Was Vesalius, Paré or Harvey the most in influential with their discoveries in Renaissance Times? The Renaissance was a period that began at the end of the fourteenth century. It began in Italy, mainly as a set of ideas in art and literature, but it soon caused changes in many other fields-geography, religion, and science as well as medicine. The Renaissance also saw the birth of three famous doctors' -Vesalius, Paré and Harvey-who had a great influence on the history of medicine. Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514. His family had a history of medical knowledge, his father was pharmacist to the Emperor Charles V and his grandfather and great grandfather had also been medical men. Vesalius started his studies at Louvain University and then went to Paris in 1533 to study medicine under Jean Guinter at the age of nineteen. He then returned to Louvain in 1537 where...

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