Leonardo's Dissections Continue

Frida Ghitis: Leonardo was fascinated by muscles of the woodpecker's tongue and crocodile's jaw. She says he compared blood vessels in a centurion to those of a two-year-old boy who had also died at the hospital. He concluded that man behaves like an orange peel, which gets tougher as it ages, she writes. Ghitis: His idea on the microcosm and the macrocosm resonates with us today.