Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
The Forum
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The Heart as a Muscle
He was extraordinary in what he managed to describe, wasn't he? Wasn't he the first person to describe the heart as a muscle? He did. If you have a body and you can open and you can see how it works, and you take it apart and you seet mechanics, it's a completely different way of understanding. So that's how, when he opened the body of the hundred year old man, and he saw that the heart, that the arteries were blocked, and that the sweet death of the man was caused by the fluids stopping in the body,. In that way, the life ending, he concluded that that was the cause of his death. His drawings are
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