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[|Click here to view the blog]! This project was a blog that I created based off a bunch of different links that led me to information on four important men, Andreas Vesalius, Leonardo da Vinci, Bartolomeo Eustachi, and Henry Gray that were from the Renaissance and contributed to medical practice/thinking in the 1400s. In this project, I had to look in all the different links my teacher provided and find three important contributions of each man. This was one of my longer blogs because there was so much information to cover. I was interested to find how da Vinci contributed to science, because before this project I only knew about him from his artwork, not his great scientific mind. All of these men made observations and helped contribute to anatomy to make it what it is today. Henry Gray, for instance, created the textbook "Gray's Anatomy" which is still widely used today. I also learned the importance of the Renaissance to occur, for it would have been difficult for these men if this movement never happened. The Renaissance pursued artistic and intellectual aspects, which helped develp different ways of thinking. The Renaissance was the reason that these men took steps towards increasing the knowledge of the body. Before this time, previous drawings of the human body were not as in-depth or accurate as the ones created by these leaders. The fact that they performed many dissections, particularly Vesalius and Gray, aided in the accuracy of the anatomical knowledge the world held. These major strides brought anatomy to its advanced state today.