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not published until 1754, and therefore did not exert the in- 

 fluence upon anatomical studies that those of Vesaliusdid. 



The Especial Service of Vesalius. It should be remem- 

 bered that both these men had the advantage of the sketches 

 made under the direction of Vesalius. Pioneers and path- 

 breakers are under special limitations of being in a new 

 territory, and make more errors than they would in following 



FIG. 8. FALLOPIUS, 1523-1563. 



another's survey of the same territory; it takes much less 

 creative force to correct the errors of a first survey than 



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to make the original discoveries. Everything considered, 

 Vesalius is deserving of the position assigned to him. He 

 was great in a larger sense, and it was his researches in 

 particular which re-established scientific method and made 

 further progress possible. His errors were corrected, not by 



