How Did Leonardo Da Vinci Contribute To Human Anatomy

Leonardo DA Vinci, and The human anatomy In writing this report I hope to find out how Leonardo Da Vinci, contributed to the medical world. What he did that may have helped us in medson today? and how he do it. Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452 in Vinci, Italy during a time known as the Renaissance, he was born out of wedlock the son of Sir Piero from Vinci. Not much is known about Da Vinci's youth. He spent his first five-years in Tuscany near Florence, after that he lived in the household of his father, and grandparents. His father San Pierro, married a number of different times only to end in divorce, but he finally met and married a lady from a wealthy family where 5-year old Da Vinci was a welcome addition. As a child

One area that he paid particular attention to, was the human anatomy. During his life, Leonardo Da Vinci study around 30 corpses, both unhealthy and healthy, he did this to better understand how the human body worked. "Others such as Plato and Aristotle had studied the topic too, but Da Vinci was one of the first to give both correct drawings and reports of the anatomy. This is shown in Da Vinci's drawings of the Vitruvian Man"(Medical Impact Leonardo DA Vinci). "The Vitruvian Man is a drawing of a man who is standing in the middle of a circle and a square. This man is shown in two different positions, which shows an exact depiction of the parts of the human body" (Medical Impact Leonardo DA Vinci). The Vitruvian Man is just one page in a notebook that was full of information about the human body. Leonardo Da Vinci wanted these notebooks to be used in the medical field. But, these books didn’t really get any uses until the 1900s, when two of Da Vinci’s notebooks were found in 1965, and in them were Da Vinci’s drawings and