Realdo Columbo
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
The 'discovery' of the clitoris by Renaissance anatomists:
1559: Realdo Columbo discovers clitoris ('so pretty and useful a thing') (De re anatomica);
1561: Gabrielle Fallopio disputes Columbo's priority
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