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This ancient Chinese anatomical atlas changes what we know about acupuncture and medical history – The Conversation UK
New research shows that the oldest surviving anatomical atlas comes from Han Dynasty China, and was written over 2,000 years ago.
The accepted history of anatomy says that it was the ancient Greeks who mapped the human body for the first time. Galen, the Father of Anatomy, worked on animals, and wrote anatomy textbooks that lasted for the next 1,500 years. Modern anatomy started in the Renaissance with Andreas Vesalius, who challenged what had been handed down from Galen. He worked from human beings, and wrote the seminal On the Fabric of the Human Body.
Scientists from ancient China are never mentioned in this history of…
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