How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? 108
antdude writes "BBC News answers how accurate were Leonardo da Vinci's anatomy drawings — '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. But at his death in 1519, his great treatise on the body was incomplete and his scientific papers were unpublished. Based on what survives, clinical anatomists believe that Leonardo's anatomical work was hundreds of years ahead of its time, and in some respects it can still help us understand the body today. So how do these drawings, sketched more than 500 years ago, compare to what digital imaging technology can tell us today?'"
Except for one thing (Score:0, Funny)
He always drew breasts and penises much larger than they could've reasonably been. Some believe this influences today's comic book artists.
Re:OMG! 500 years ago??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Risque? (Score:5, Funny)
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole bird. Playing it safe is using a rubber chicken.
Re:OMG! 500 years ago??? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines (Score:5, Funny)
Can any headline which ends in a question mark be answered by the word 'no'?
If Only he'd applied himself... (Score:4, Funny)
Gray's Anatomy (Score:5, Funny)
I hate that fucking show, oh it was fine for a couple seasons but now were seeing dead boyfriends and supernatural experiences blah blah blah bullshit
Agreed, but she was talking about the 19th century editions of Gray's Anatomy.
Which is a new spin-off, taking place in a Victorian steam punk universe : They use morphine for almost any operation, but only if they like the patient, sniff cocaine to get rid of the cold, and discuss female hysteria in the break room. Oh and the dresses, you should see the dresses.
Re:If Only he'd applied himself... (Score:4, Funny)
Seems like a lad with a gift like this would've amounted to something.
Not as lucky in love as he was at aquiring corpses, his broken heart left him feable-minded, and he fell in with a bad crowd: the smokers who hang out by the fence.