He is known
to have given public demonstrations in Bologna and elsewhere. In the
"China-root" he remarks that he once taught in three universities in one
year. The first fruit of his work is of great importance in connection
with the evolution of his knowledge. In 1538, he published six
anatomical tables issued apparently in single leaves. Of the famous
"Tabulae Anatomicae" only two copies are known, one in the San
Marco Library, Venice, and the other in the possession of Sir John
Stirling-Maxwell, whose father had it reproduced in facsimile (thirty
copies only) in 1874. Some of the figures were drawn by Vesalius
himself, and some are from the pencil of his friend and countryman,
Stephan van Calcar. Those plates were extensively pirated. About this
time he also edited for the Giunti some of the anatomical works of
Galen.(21)
(21) De anatomicis administrationibus, De venarum arterinrumque
dissectione, included in the various Juntine editions of Galen.
We know very little of his private life at Padua. His most important
colleague in the faculty was the famous Montanus, professor of medicine.
Among his students and associates was the Englishman Caius, who lived in
the same house with him.
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