This is his drawing of the female anatomy, including the heart and major organs When Leonardo da Vinci dissected the heart of a 100-year-old man who had recently died, he produced the first known ...

Heart of the matter Yet arguably Leonardo ... was a liveliness to them that you just don’t find in modern anatomical drawings.” During his investigations, Leonardo discovered several ...

He correctly described the heart as the center of the blood system ... but because his scientific papers and anatomical drawings went unpublished for centuries, this mechanism wasn’t confirmed ...

Most of his anatomical drawings are covered with his annotations ... “In this child the heart does not beat and it does not breathe because it rests continually in water, and if it breathed ...