The most famous sheet from Leonardo's anatomical campaign of 1510–11, showing a foetus curled in an opened uterus. The observation is exact where he had human material to dissect and wrong where he did not — the cotyledons of the placenta are borrowed from a cow. Nothing approaching it was published for another two hundred years.
The most famous sheet from Leonardo's anatomical campaign of 1510–11, showing a foetus curled in an opened uterus. The observation is exact where he had human material to dissect and wrong where he did not — the cotyledons of the placenta are borrowed from a cow. Nothing approaching it was published for another two hundred years.Read more
