Renaissance Anatomy

The spleen in renaissance anatomy.

AND INTRODUCTION IN THIS PAPER I shall be describing the ideas ofanatomists on the function and structure of the spleen from the beginning of the sixteenth century until the time of Veslingius in the middle of the seventeenth. The debates on the spleen had no happy outcome in the form of a successful or correct theory as was the case with the sixteenthand early seventeenth-century arguments on ...

Leonardo Da Vinci's Influence on Renaissance Anatomy.

LEONARDO DA VINCI has been described as the man who awoke too early in the darkness, while all the others were still asleep. His gigantic efforts in the realm of what we now call science tragically failed to disturb his fellows from their slumbers. Only by his painting did he rouse them to their senses. The dominant pattern of his life shows Leonardo, through his own isolated mental exertions, ...

Ventricular anatomy: illustrations and concepts from antiquity to Renaissance

The localization of motor and sensory activities, the “rete mirabile” and the localization of the mental processes – the seat of the soul – in the ventricles or “cells” of the brain were ancient Greek concepts which were handed down to the middle ages. Although this last concept had not fully matured during classical antiquity its basic elements can be traced to Galen’s works. Even though there...

Representing the Body: The Visual Culture of Renaissance Anatomy

Virtualization Renaissance

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