Leonardo’s Heart
(1) Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Abstract Leonardo’s heart studies from the years about 1513 to 1514 represent the pinnacle of his anatomical…
Leonardo’s Use of Drawing
(1) Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Abstract The need to draw is deeply rooted in our psyche. The intellectual energy of the mind…
The Making of a Master: Leonardo, His Life and Times
(1) Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Abstract Late one evening, in the springtime of 1452, in the low foothills of Montalbano, northwestern Tuscany,…
Leonardo, Anatomist or Natural Philosopher?
(1) Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Abstract No other subject engaged Leonardo more than his work on the anatomy of the human body….
Leonardo: A Personal Legacy
(1) Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Abstract In this chapter, I will attempt to explain why and how my interest in Leonardo’s anatomical…
Leonardo Scholarship and the Cataloguing of the Anatomical Manuscripts
(1) Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Abstract The first academic commentary on Leonardo’s anatomical manuscripts was that of the eminent eighteenth century anatomist…
