For medieval Europeans (before 1543),the main authority on anatomy had been
A)Islamic physicians.
B)the Chinese Book of Medicine.
C)the Dutch book, Tabulae Anatomicae.
D)Galen.
E)the Catholic Church.

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For medieval Europeans, the main authority on anatomy had been Galen, a Greek physician who lived in the 2nd century AD. Galen's works were translated into Latin and became the most influential medical texts in the Western world for over a thousand years. Physicians and scholars relied heavily on Galen's anatomical knowledge until the Renaissance when new anatomical discoveries were made.

For Medieval Europeans (Before 1543),the Main Authority on Anatomy Had