(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)
a Flemish painter famous especially for his religious paintings and his pictures of Hell in his best-known work 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' (?1460-1516)
Italian Girolamo Fabrici born May 20, 1537, Acquapendente, Italy died May 21, 1619, Padua Italian surgeon and anatomist. He studied under and later succeeded Gabriel Fallopius at the University of Padua (1562-1613). The first clear description of the valves of the veins, in his De venarum ostiolis (1603), provided his pupil William Harvey with a crucial point in his argument for blood circulation. His De formato foetu (1600) contained the first detailed description of the placenta and opened the field of comparative embryology. He was the first to perceive the larynx as a vocal organ and to demonstrate that the pupil of the eye changes size
Italian Girolamo Fabrici born May 20, 1537, Acquapendente, Italy died May 21, 1619, Padua Italian surgeon and anatomist. He studied under and later succeeded Gabriel Fallopius at the University of Padua (1562-1613). The first clear description of the valves of the veins, in his De venarum ostiolis (1603), provided his pupil William Harvey with a crucial point in his argument for blood circulation. His De formato foetu (1600) contained the first detailed description of the placenta and opened the field of comparative embryology. He was the first to perceive the larynx as a vocal organ and to demonstrate that the pupil of the eye changes size