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However, modern anatomy was born a few decades later, in the middle of the sixteenth century AD, thanks to great anatomists and anatomopathologists such as the Belgian Andreas Vesalius (1514–64) with his publication of “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” (1543) and the Roman Bartolomeo Eustachio (1500 or 1510–1574) with his posthumous publication “Tabulae anatomicae Bartholomaci Eustachii” [3, 4]. Eustachio was the rst to describe the adrenal glands and is also credited for a great contribution to the modern knowledge of kidney anatomy: the lower position of the right kidney compared with the left, the intrarenal kidney vas­culature, the renal calyceal system and its relation to the renal papillae, and the renal collecting ducts [1]. From the seventeenth century onward, many other contributors did their bits for the development of kidney anatomy science: The Dutch Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731), the Italian Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), the Dutch Govard Bidloo (1649–1713), the Italian Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), the English William Cheselden (1688–1752), the Italian Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694/8), and so on. [1]. The French anatomist Exupère Joseph Bertin (1712–1781) is credited for the description of intra-renal septa in 1744 which evolved later into the concept of “Columns of Bertin” and is also regarded by some authors as the rst discoverer of the “Tubes of Henle” which he described as “petits siphons recourbés” (small curved siphons) a century before the German anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885) [5, 6].