Fabricius (1537‒1619)

Fabricius or Fabrizio, Girolamo, a famous Italian anatomist, born at Aquapendente; became professor at Padua in 1565, where he gained a world-wide reputation as a teacher; Harvey declares that he got his first idea of the circulation of the blood from attending his lectures (1537‒1619).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)