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Titled, like all such letters, from its first two Latin words, Humani Generis (Of Mankind), the encyclical cracked down hard on Roman Catholic teachers, priests and philosophers who for various reasons are drifting away from the dogmas of the church and the orthodox system of thought laid down by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is a mistake, wrote Pius, to think that there is the same room for discussion of theological matters today as there was earlier in the church's history...
...delivered by Dr. Charles O'Malley, was titled The Life and Times of Andreas Vesalius, the medieval anatomist (1514-64) who was one of the foremost grave robbers of his day. In 1543, at the age of 28, he shocked the scientific world with his great work, De Humani Carporis Fabrica, which detailed the construction of the human body and scornfully exploded some superstitions...
...January 6 the Treasure Room in Widener will be given over to an exhibition of works significant in the history of science. Only the years between 1500 and 1800 have been drawn upon, because of the rarity of books before those years, and the abundance after them. Vesalius "De Humani Corperi Fabrica," in the second edition, will be on view; the first, printed at Basel in 1543, is to be shown at the same time in the Print Room in Fogg. The Treasure Room, possesses, however, the earliest printings of Copernicus' revolutionary work on the movements of the planets...
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto