Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist [精裝] (達芬奇：解剖學家)

Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer in the study of the human body. Intent on exploring and explaining every aspect of anatomy and physiology, he performed over thirty dissections of human cadavers and many more of animals. He is also among the greatest draftsmen ever to have lived, and his studies of skeletons, musculature, and other visible structures remain to this day largely unsurpassed in their lucidity.

In addition to his anatomical drawings, Leonardo meticulously recorded his many findings on the pages of his notebooks with the hope of one day publishing a treatise on anatomy. Among the more than one thousand pages of these notebooks were a number of important discoveries that, had they been published, would have transformed Western understanding of biological sciences. But despite admiration by the likes of Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, and Albrecht Dürer—who made a number of drawings from Leonardo's anatomical studies—the work was never completed and the drawings remained largely unpublished and little known until around 1900.
Since the seventeenth century, the Royal Library at Windsor Castle has housed the world's most significant collection of Leonardo's surviving anatomical studies. Generously illustrated throughout, this volume presents ninety of the finest of these astonishing documents—the largest publication of Leonardo's anatomical drawings to date—accompanied by an informative discussion of their anatomical content and their significance in Leonardo's pioneering work.

　　列奧納多‧達‧芬奇（1452—1519），意大利文藝復興三傑之一，也是整個歐洲文藝復興時期最完美的代表。他是一位思想深邃，學識淵博、多才多藝的畫家、寓言家、雕塑家、發明家、哲學家、音樂家、醫學家、生物學家、地理學家、建築工程師和軍事工程師。他是一位天才，他一面熱心於藝術創作和理論研究，研究如何用線條與立體造型去表現形體的各種問題；另一方面他也同時研究自然科學，為了真實感人的藝術形象，他廣泛地研究與繪畫有關的光學、數學、地質學、生物學等多種學科。他的藝術實踐和科學探索精神對後代產生了重大而深遠的影響。