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Welcome to the Fiesole Retreat in Leuven

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Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)Father of modern anatomy

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Gerard Mercator (1512-1594)

Cartographer

The Mercator projection

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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)

Wandering humanist scholarStudied in Cologne and Leuven

Taught in :Jena and Leiden

Returned to Leuven for the last years

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Valerius Andreas (1588-1655)

The first University Librarian 1636

Collier is no. 28

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The old University Library

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Burnt in the First World War

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The splitting of the library 1971-1980

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Cutting the cake