Leonardo Da Vinci's Interest in Human Anatomy

Mihai Negrean

Sep 13, 2021 — 1 min read

Leonardo Da Vinci lived from 1452-1519.

He was an artist, an engineer, and a scientist.

He was interested in anatomy early in his career, but was too busy to be able to study it in depth. Later, he was a witness to an old man’s death, and after the man died, he found that he had little fat, and thought that having little fat made him live longer.

Da Vinci started drawing pictures of the human body in 1489, and he produced extremely accurate cross-sectional representations of the human skull.
In 1507, he became interested in anatomy again when the incident with the old man happened.
From 1510 to 1513 he concentrated on anatomy, and drew “The Embryo in the Womb”, a drawing still in some medical textbooks today.

Leonardo Da Vinci is famous for his anatomical drawings and his inventions.

World War I

World War I was one of the most destructive wars in the world's history. It involved most of the world, which was why it was called a world war. This war had its beginnings in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire&

Archimedes

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who lived in the third century BC. He is well known for predicting the use of calculus, and discovering an approximation of pi. While he was in Syracuse, the city was attacked by Rome in the years 213 and 212

Alexander Pope and An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope was an English poet born in 1688. He wrote many poems, including English translations of the Iliad and Odyssey. One of his most famous poems, An Essay on Criticism, is written like a guide on how to write and criticize poetry. Some points that Pope makes in his

Literature in the 17th Century

Metaphysical Poets Metaphysical poets were a group of 17th century poets who wrote metaphysical or philosophical poems. Some of the most important metaphysical poets included John Donne, Abraham Cowley, and George Herbert. These poets used conceits, a special type of comparison, to combine "dissimilar images". George Herbert was

Read more

World War I

Archimedes

Alexander Pope and An Essay on Criticism

Literature in the 17th Century