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William Harvey
English physician
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
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Galen
Greek physician
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Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
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Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
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Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
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Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
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Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
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John Hunter
British surgeon
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
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Nicolaus Steno
Danish geologist
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Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist
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Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
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Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
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Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
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Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
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Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
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Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Italian anatomist and pathologist
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