The Fallopian tubes are named after their discoverer, the 16th century Italian anatomist Gabriele Falloppio. Surfer, Anatomist, Osteoarchaeologist, and noted Humanist. Several sources attribute the discovery of the malleus to the anatomist and philosopher Alessandro Achillini. Several sources attribute the discovery of the incus to the anatomist and philosopher Alessandro Achillini. However this was brought into disrepute by surgeon anatomist J Massey. In 16th-century Italy, anatomist and physician Gabriele Falloppio wrote a treatise on syphilis. The Scottish anatomist William Hunter opened his anatomical theatre at No. The name was coined by another German anatomist, Heinrich von Waldeyer in 1888. The name was coined by another German anatomist, von Waldeyer in 1888. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. Audubon also visited the dissecting theatre of the anatomist Robert Knox. Knox was an anatomist who had qualified as a doctor in 1814. The system is named after Marcello Malpighi, a seventeenth-century anatomist. Leydig cells are named after the German anatomist Franz Leydig, who discovered them in 1850. They are named after the German anatomist Friedrich Matthias Claudius (1822-1869).