1: Galen and Leonardo | The Beauty of Anatomy

Duration: 29'03''

Synopsis

Adam Rutherford begins his series investigating the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them by looking at the work of the 2nd-century Roman anatomist Claudius Galen and the artist and part-time dissector Leonardo da Vinci.

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