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Guillaume rondelet (1507–1566)
Author(s) -
Mian Asma,
Watanabe Koichi,
Shoja Mohammadali M.,
Loukas Marios,
Tubbs R. Shane
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/ca.22237
Subject(s) - medicine , general surgery , classics , history
The 16th century French anatomist Guillaume Rondelet will be remembered as a great naturalist and a founder of ichthyology. Little known to most is that Rondelet was a proficient anatomist and contemporary to Vesalius and in fact, both studied anatomy under Johannes Guinter. Even less known is that he established the first dissecting theatre at Montpellier and it was here that he would dissect his infant son in an attempt to identify the cause of death. In this article, we review the life and contributions to anatomy of Rondelet. Clin. Anat. 27:279–281, 2014. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.