Leonardo DA Vinci, and The human anatomy In writing this report I hope to find out how Leonardo Da Vinci, contributed to the medical world. What he did that still plays a role in Madison today? To do this, one must first know what Leonardo Da Vinci, wanted and at the time he wanted it. During this time most information came from the Bible or through the writings of other scientists. Experiments were not really conducted, and if they were, they were thought of as wrong or incorrect. But Da Vinci knew throw experimentation came answers, throw answers came information, throw information came knowledge. He knew with this knowledge he could find out so much more about the world he lived in. "Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452 in Vinci, …show more content…
Not much is known about Da Vinci's youth. He spent his first five-years in Tuscany near Florence, at that time he lived in the household of his father, and grandparents. His father San Pierro, married a number of times only to end in divorce, but he finally met and married a lady from a wealthy family where 5-year old Da Vinci was a welcome addition. As a child, Da Vinci was very smart with a big talent for math. His early schooling was done at home in Vinci, where he lived on a big estate with his new stepmother, his father, and several of his brothers and sisters, and his Uncle Francesco, who was a farmer and nature lover. Young Da Vinci spent a great deal of time with his uncle working outdoors and drawing. When Da Vinci was just a young teen he began a long apprenticeship with the "artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, There he learned many different technical skills, including leather arts, …show more content…
From observing the fixed form of the body, Da Vinci begins to study the individual parts of the body and the way the body parts moved. After looking at how the outside of the body moved, he turned his attention to the inside to the internal organs. "His findings from these studies were recorded in the famous anatomical drawings, which are among the most significant achievements of Renaissance Science" (Heydenreich). His drawings were broken down to show how each body part worked together and how each one functioned together in the body. One such organ was the thyroid gland, Da Vinci filled notebooks over the course of three-decades some of these notes were about the thyroid gland, it took him many years of study before understanding the thyroid's function, "Da Vinci wrote in one of his notebooks, “These glands are made to fill the interval where the muscles are lacking and hold the artery away from the neck bones as though they were a cushion” (Columbia Thyroid Center). Although we know today this was not quite right, Da Vinci was still the first to draw the thyroid and define the thyroid as an organ. The notes and drawing he illustrated in these notebooks in time have helped others to better understand the function of the