Quaderni d'anatomia  

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Quaderni d'Anatomia is a part of Leonardo's notebooks, edited by Ove CL Vangensten, A. Fonahn and H. Hopstock and published by Jacob Dybwad in 1912.

After Leonardo's death his anatomical drawings passed through many hands. They disappeared completely for a century or more until the later part of the eighteenth century when they were discovered in England in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle by the physician, connoisseur, and collector William Hunter (1718-83). Hunter wrote to Albrecht Haller about the drawings and published a note about them in his last, posthumous book on the history of anatomy. However, for the most part the drawings remained unknown to scholars.[1]

Until the advent of sophisticated photographic facsimile techniques at the turn of the twentieth century Leonardo's anatomical notebooks, with their mutually dependent text and illustrations, could not be accurately reproduced. Thus appreciation of Leonardo's contributions to anatomy and physiology is primarily a 20th-century phenomenon.[2]

See also

• Leonardo's Notebooks
• Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings