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Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 26, 2008
Girolamo Fabrici, known as Hieronymus Fabricius in Latin, was given the surname Aquapendente from the city where he was born, near Orvieto, Italy.…
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 26, 2008
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452, the illegitimate son of a young peasant girl by the name of Caterina and Ser Piero da Vinci, a well-…
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Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Drawings of the Fetus
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Leonardo da Vinci's embryological drawings of the fetus in the womb and his accompanying observational annotations are found in the third volume of…
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Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Annotations
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Among his myriad scientific and artistic contributions, Leonardo da Vinci's work in embryology was groundbreaking. He observed and diagramed the…
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Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Annotations
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Among his myriad scientific and artistic contributions, Leonardo da Vinci's work in embryology was groundbreaking. He observed and diagramed the…
LiteratureLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Human DevelopmentPublicationsFetus
Hartsoeker's Homunculus Sketch from Essai de Dioptrique
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Aug 14, 2008
This embryology image is a pencil sketch by Nicolaas Hartsoeker, published as part of his 1694 French-language paper entitled Essai de Dioptrique, a…
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Homunculus
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Aug 13, 2008
The term homunculus is Latin for "little man." It is used in neurology today to describe the map in the brain of sensory neurons in each part of the…
Spermism
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Aug 13, 2008
Spermism was one of two models of preformationism, a theory of embryo generation prevalent in the late seventeenth through the end of the eighteenth…
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Preformationism in the Enlightenment
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Aug 11, 2008
Preformationism was a theory of embryological development used in the late seventeenth through the late eighteenth centuries. This theory held that…
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