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The frontispiece, Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the embryo in the
womb, was chosen as a starting point for this book. It was Leonardo
who in his notebooks and drawings combined artistic composition and
accurate recording of the anatomy of the human body. Leonardo
studied human anatomy in order to execute artistic drawings. His
aim was to clarify form and function of human organs including
reproductive organs. He followed up his extensive research with
graphic representa tion and thereby initiated record keeping as a
basis of scientific investigation. His records, accurate
three-dimensional drawings, allowed others to reproduce his find
ings and to test for correctness. Results could be updated and
refined. Only after these steps can abnormalities be ascertained
and defined as pathology. Though Leonardo was both artist and
scientist, it is assumed that his anatomic drawings were used to
improve his art, and thus scientific endeavor was at the service of
his art. Anatomy, the offspring of science and art, is an
integration of the two and became an accepted branch of the natural
sciences. Although art and science continued to interact throughout
the Renaissance, art was often placed in the service of science. In
the course of history that followed, art and science in creasingly
followed separate ways."
The frontispiece, Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the embryo in the
womb, was chosen as a starting point for this book. It was Leonardo
who in his notebooks and drawings combined artistic composition and
accurate recording of the anatomy of the human body. Leonardo
studied human anatomy in order to execute artistic drawings. His
aim was to clarify form and function of human organs including
reproductive organs. He followed up his extensive research with
graphic representa- tion and thereby initiated record keeping as a
basis of scientific investigation. His records, accurate
three-dimensional drawings, allowed others to reproduce his find-
ings and to test for correctness. Results could be updated and
refined. Only after these steps can abnormalities be ascertained
and defined as pathology. Though Leonardo was both artist and
scientist, it is assumed that his anatomic drawings were used to
improve his art, and thus scientific endeavor was at the service of
his art. Anatomy, the offspring of science and art, is an
integration of the two and became an accepted branch of the natural
sciences. Although art and science continued to interact throughout
the Renaissance, art was often placed in the service of science. In
the course of history that followed, art and science in- creasingly
followed separate ways.
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