Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings
Clip: Season 16 Episode 4 | 3m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
Leonardo’s first dissections were in search of the soul.
First sign of Leonardo's actual practical involvement in anatomy and dissection is some wonderful, slightly eerie drawings of a skull, dateable to about 1489. Leonardo’s illustrations, as precise as his technical drawings of machines, were unequalled in accuracy until the photographic techniques of the 19th century.
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Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings
Clip: Season 16 Episode 4 | 3m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
First sign of Leonardo's actual practical involvement in anatomy and dissection is some wonderful, slightly eerie drawings of a skull, dateable to about 1489. Leonardo’s illustrations, as precise as his technical drawings of machines, were unequalled in accuracy until the photographic techniques of the 19th century.
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