BBC Focus Magazine

[M Paul Lloyd]

A man ahead of his time?

Leonardo da Vinci: How accurate were his anatomy drawings?

By Robin Banerji BBC World Service
The largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body goes on display in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace this week. So how accurate were they?
During his lifetime, Leonardo made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body.
He wanted to understand how the body was composed and how it worked. But at his death in 1519, his great treatise on the body was incomplete and his scientific papers were unpublished.

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