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snarkout: liver and lights
Nice post (and I'm not just saying that) from snarkout regarding the way Vesalius (see here, here and here) began the slow process of extracting medical learning from the grasp of entrenched Galenism.
"Vesalius helped usher in the Age of Reason, the Europe of Galileo and Newton, by the claim that people should believe their own eyes and not what they read."