Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer in the study of the human body.
Intent on exploring and explaining every aspect of anatomy and
physiology, he performed over thirty dissections of human""cadavers
and many more of animals. He is also among the greatest draftsmen
ever to have lived, and his studies of skeletons, musculature, and
other visible structures remain to this day largely unsurpassed in
their lucidity.In addition to his anatomical drawings, Leonardo
meticulously recorded his many findings on the pages of his
notebooks with the hope of one day publishing a treatise on
anatomy. Among the more than one thousand pages of these notebooks
were a number of important discoveries that, had they been
published, would have transformed Western understanding of
biological sciences. But despite admiration by the likes of
Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, and Albrecht Durer--who made a
number of drawings from Leonardo's anatomical studies--the work was
never completed and the drawings remained largely unpublished and
little known until around 1900. Since the seventeenth century, the
Royal Library at Windsor Castle has housed the world's most
significant collection of Leonardo's surviving anatomical studies.
Generously illustrated throughout, this volume presents ninety of
the finest of these astonishing documents--the largest publication
of Leonardo's anatomical drawings to date--accompanied by an
informative discussion of their anatomical content and their
significance in Leonardo's pioneering work.
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