The richness of detail in da Vincis drawings obtained directly from dissections he made or accompanied is unparalleled in or before his time. Da Vincis creations helped medicine understand the workings of the heart circulatory system and reproductive system as well as shed new light on bones and muscles. This genius was so far ahead of his time that his sketches inspired centuries later the pictorial representation of modern mechanics and descriptive geometry as well as robotics.
6 milestones of scientific illustration 10 Leonardo da Vinci 6 milestones of scientific illustration 11 Leonardo da Vinci 6 milestones of scientific illustration 12 Leonardo da Vinci Darwin the splendor of the 19th photo background removing century and the journal Nature The illustration and the progressive replacement of God by man as the center of the universe and the focus of knowledge led to the emergence of generations of great scientific illustrators who throughout the seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had their heyday in this discipline.
One of the most famous scientists of all time the Englishman Charles Darwin author of the theory of evolution published in The Origin of Species was a great scientific illustrator. His series on the Galapagos Islands are still present in the annals of illustration and stand out for their incredible level of detail and sensitivity which of this text. Entire manuals devoted to botany ornithology and human anatomy became popular works extrapolating scientific circles and becoming themes of social gatherings and the enlightened bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century.
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