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Andreas Vesalius FD25 bold and ambitious' SUNDAY POSTIn 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissection as a form of destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped establish how the human body was constructed. Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesaliuss book presented this view through innovative use of Renaissance art, printing technology and the classical