Realdo Colombo

Matteo Realdo Colombo or Realdus Columbus (Casement bolt, 1510 - Padoue, 1559) is an Italian doctor of the Italian Renaissance and friend of Michel-Angel.

Biography

Realdo Colombo, born from a father Apothecary (Antonio Colombo), becomes the pupil, then the successor of Andrea Vesalio (Vésale) with the pulpit of anatomy of the Université of Padoue. He teaches the anatomy with Pisa in 1546 then with Rome in 1549 with the college of the Sapienza.

Its name remains attached to the work Of Re anatomica (published with Venice in 1559), decorated of a Frontispice allotted to Véronèse: a memorable work, especially for its chapters concerning the description of the Plèvre, the Peritoneum and the Crystalline , One also owes him the discovery of pulmonary circulation. It precisely describes the way of the venous blood of the right Ventricule with the Poumon by the pulmonary Artère and its return to the left Ventricule by the pulmonary veins. Its pupil, Andrea Cesalpino (1519 - 1603) will use the first the term of “circulation”, without establishing however the bond between the Pouls and the blood flow. It is about an idea strongly in advance on the Blood circulation which will be done day, a few years later in the theory of William Harvey (1578 - 1657) which read work of Colombo at the university of Padoue.

More than thousand Dissection S of human body which relates mainly on the Thorax and of many Vivisection S to the animal, enables him to observe the movements of the Cœur, but it persists in allotting to the Foie the role of the heart. It describes small circulation at the same time as Michel Servet, than it however did not read.

In 1556, It carries out the Autopsie Ignace de Loyola, founder about the Jésuites died with Rome.

Gabriele Falloppio succeeds to him the pulpit of Padoue.

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