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Photos from exhibit: "Da Vinci: Anatomist"

Photos from Da Vinci: Anatomist

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardhealy450d/sets/72157630017433148/

"On the 6th of June 2012 - I travelled to London, Buckingham Palace, The Mall. To the Royal Galleries to see the newly opened "Da Vinci: Anatomist" exhibit. This was truly awesome, and luckily they let me take my camera inside.... It's taken me a while to process and upload these - but here they are at last - enjoy!"

Tags: Anatomy, Da, Empiricism, Greek, History, Leonardo, Photography, Rationalism, Science, Surgery, More…Vinci, Wonder

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Comment by Richard Healy on June 4, 2012 at 12:37am: Cheers SB!

Comment by Sentient Biped on June 3, 2012 at 7:31pm: Richard, those are beautiful.

Comment by Richard Healy on June 3, 2012 at 3:19am: Album updated - I forgot to include a couple!

Comment by Richard Healy on June 2, 2012 at 6:09pm: Ah but to see the originals - that itself was something else!

very sad too - his final drawings and notes refer to the "little doors" in the heart - or valves as we call them. He even drew the vortexes generated by the blood passing through that draws the valve closed.

However he was operating centuries before Harvey cottoned onto the circulation of the blood, and so with no theoretical framework into which he could plug this observation he is left repeating the activity and marvelling at the mystery of it until he died never having reconciled this fact with explanation.

I felt rather sad upon learning that: he was so far ahead of his peers he was denied this. Almost makes you wish there was an afterlife sp you could take him to one side and say "no, no its like this see? It goes *around.."

Comment by Loren Miller on June 2, 2012 at 5:55pm: Wonderful pix! At one time, I know that Gray's Anatomy used many of Leonardo's illustrations as its plates because of the quality of their detail. I'd be curious to know if they still do.