jorge jaime adrian
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Renaissance Man, Genius
Born in Vinci, Italy, he is said to be an illegitimate son of a peasant woman and a successful notary. With no privilege of a formal education, Da Vinci launched a self-education program.He grew up in nature, and began to use his skills of observation to learn about the world around him.He was alive during a tumultuous, yet progressive time for Italy and for the world. Constantinople had just fallen, ending the Eastern Empire, Gutenburg had just invented the moveable type, Italy was experiencing political upheaval.
Born:15/4/1452Death:2/5/1519
After spending time in his quaint hometown, he left Vinci, Italy and continued his pursuit of knowledge in Milan, Rome, Bolonga, Venice, and spent his last days in France, where he supposedly died in the arms of King Francois I.
While Italy was experiencing political turmoil, Da Vinci also faced adversity and overcame the trials which he faced. During his life, he suffered a stroke, was accused of being homosexual (which the charges were dismissed), persecuted by some for being left handed, and overcame the stigma of being an illegitimate son.
Leonardo da Vinci’s most important contributions to society were his artwork, inventions and theories, and his study of human anatomy.
Leonardo raised the study of the “structure of man” to a science. He illustrated the inner structure of man. His drawings were so brilliant that they are still used to illustrate anatomy texts today.
Among the many things that Leonardo Da Vinci accomplished, the facets of his life that may be the most interesting to healthcare workers would be his advances in science, especially anatomy and physiology.
Leonardo Da Vinci was way ahead of his time when it comes to observing and documenting physiological processes and details of anatomy. His analytical mind did not have to deal with the frailty of the human tendency to be squeamish when it came to dissecting plants and animals, even humans!
Through his dissections, he gained understanding of the respiratory system, skeletal and muscle tissues, brain anatomy, and digestive and reproductive systems. He advanced human knowledge and understanding to a new level never before comprehended before that age of Renaissance.
The detail with which Leonardo Da Vinci observed, recorded, drew, documented his medical findings set an example for researchers and medical practitioners for centuries to come.The zealousness with which Leonardo Da Vinci searched for answers set an example for all of the world.
It was very few because the diseases, the conservation of the bodies and because the dissection was punished by the church, but Leonardo da Vinci started to dissect animals and then human bodies giving us an idea of how was the human body
Here there is one picture of Leonardo about the body:
With his drawings, we could expand the knowledge of human anatomy, he explained all steps in his notebook with words and a drawing. He wrote 1605 words in each page as we can see in this page:
He usually took some animal’s bodies to understand the human’s one, but he also used corpses as models to explain more complex systems
In this drawing he used a cow’s uterus with a human fetus:
After many studies about anatomy he concluded that the spinal cord of the frog was the origin of life
Spinal cord by Leonardo
Before he died, Leonardo da Vinci left his drawings to one of his students, that gave them to his son, but he sold them to an Italian painter that conserved all drawings together until 1900
The first image is one of the Leonardo's drawings. As
we can see they are similar to the nowadays photo but not
the same. The dissections in that time were condemned to
death by the Inquisition
The Leonardo's drawing is shown in the first image. A theory says that Leonardo made this drawing based on the uterus of a cow but it is not confirmed.
The real uterus (the second image) is oval-shaped but the drawing of Leonardo is practically a sphere.
The skeleton is one of the most important part of the body. The skeleton is composed of bones and joints.
As we can see the Leonardo drawing is very similar to the real skeleton
In the Leonardo’s picture only one lung can be seen at the right part of the body. The heart (at the left part of the body) the stomach, the kidneys and the urinary system are shown, but he didn’t draw the intestines
BY: Jaime Paterson, Jorge Navarrete, Adrián Vicente and Diego Perales