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Dissection (aug 2, 300 BC – may 30, 250 BC)

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In the first half of the third century B.C, two Greeks, Herophilus of Chalcedon and his younger contemporary Erasistratus of Ceos, became the first and last ancient scientists to perform systematic dissections of human cadavers

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aug 2, 300 BC
may 30, 250 BC
~ 50 years