Lumos: Renaissance Thinkers Behind the Magic
4. Ambroise Paré (1510–1590)
Ambroise Paré, 1584
Creator: Giullus Horbeck
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Ambroise Paré was a French surgeon whose less invasive surgical techniques were extremely influential in the development of modern surgery. Paré believed that studying nature was important to understanding the world and included all manner of odd and unusual creatures in his works.
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