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Alastair Sooke looks through the ultimate Renaissance man’s anatomical sketchbooks ... We tend to think of Leonardo da Vinci as a painter, even though he probably produced no more than ...
Leonardo da Vinci began studying the human body to improve his paintings of the human form. But he soon threw himself into the study of anatomy. Here, an illustration of the cardiovascular system ...
Leonardo da Vinci studied anatomy to gain a deeper ... Nobody did that. There were no anatomical drawings in earlier books with sections of the skull, and he's looking at the skull empirically ...
Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein. Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may ...
A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci ... of motions” da Vinci apparently explored. Gif: Caltech Da Vinci’s sketch shows the positions of ...
The ancient mystery needed a bit of high-tech help to come to light ...
A free exhibition in Washington, D.C., shows 12 pages from the multi-volume collection of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks ... lining the walls are a series of sketches detailing the Renaissance ...
A collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci makes its U.S. debut in Washington, D.C. — not at a museum, but at a public library. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library hosts the exhibition.