Made by:Carmen Hinojosa, Belén Montón

and Sonia Pons

1.Leonardo da Vinci 2.Period 3.Contributions 4.Knowledge about the body 5. How did Leonardo expand knowledge and understanding of human anatomy? 6.Methods used 7.Conclusions 8. Why nothing was known about the drawings of Leonardo until recently? 9. Anatomical drawings of Leonardo: a comparison with nowadays knowledge

Leonardo da Vinci

• Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance man, he was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. He was one of the greatest renaissance men.

• His complete name is: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Period

• Leonardo live in the Renaissance• Born: 15 April (1452, Florence)• Died: 2 May (1519, France)

Contributions

• He made discoveries about the anatomical models and he also made some projects of musical instruments. He painted some drawings like the Gioconda and he wrote some books too.

• His researches were very important for science.

Knowledge about the body

• People of the Middle Ages didn’t know anything about the inside of the human body, and when Leonardo appeared, they started to learn about the main organs and arteries of the body.

How did Leonardo expand knowledge and

understanding of human anatomy?

• He expand his knowledge because he had a lot of apprentices and because he wrote all his discoveries in books.

Methods used

• He dissected corpses and he started to experiment about the main capillaries, arteries and organs.

Conclusions

• Our main organs are joined by arteries. He thought that there were only arteries and the veins didn’t exist.

• Because one of his apprentices sold them to an Italian painter, and the painter saved them all together.

Why didn´t we know anything about the

drawings of Leonardo until recently?

Anatomical drawings of Leonardo: a comparison with nowadays knowledge