<P> Andreas Vesalius ( / vɪˈseɪliəs / ; 31 December 1514 -- 15 October 1564 ) was a 16th - century Flemish anatomist , physician , and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy , De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Fabric of the Human Body ) . 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 professor at the University of Padua and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V . </P>
who was the sixteenth century physician who published
Andreas Vesalius