A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, ...

Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old illustrations of human anatomy are uncannily accurate with just one major exception: the female reproductive system. That's probably because Leonardo had a tough ...

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.

The fact that da Vinci was using this shape in a drawing sketched in 1490 drawing reveals his genius understanding of the human body centuries before modern science came along, Dr Sweeney argues.

If Leonardo da Vinci’s uncannily accurate studies of the human body had been published in his lifetime, they would have changed the course of science, says Alastair Sooke.

The human body is the battleground where our most fundamental ideas about the way the world is come into sharp focus. ... Episode 7: Leonardo - Drawing the body.

Leonardo's drawings ended up in the possession of sculptor Pompeo Leoni, who had them bound The most complete display of Leonardo da Vinci's human body drawings is to go on show in the UK for the ...

Before Andreas Vesalius published his landmark title on human anatomy, The Fabric of the Human Body, in 1543, it was a commonly held belief that men had one less rib than women.(As the biblical ...

Human Body Part That Stumped Leonardo da Vinci Revealed. ... has lent his knowledge to an audio tour of the exhibit of Leonardo's anatomical drawings that opened May 4 in Buckingham Palace.