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#166 – Woodpecker Tongue (Leonardo 54)
Leonardo continues his dissections, becomes obsessed with how lips, tongues and mouths work, makes a wax model of the human brain, and wonders about the tongue of the…
#165 – The 100 Year Old Man (Leonardo 53)
Leonardo dissected the corpse of a 100 year old man which started his second round of anatomical studies which lasted for the next five years. Autopsies and dissections…
#164 – The Robot Lion (Leonardo 52)
There were plenty of reasons Leonardo preferred to be in Milan – royal patrons, pageants, parties, scientists… and the chance to build a robot lion.
#163 – Melzi (Leonardo 51)
While he was in Milan in 1507, Leonardo met a 14 year old boy. Leo became his guardian, teacher, adoptive father, and employer. And it’s because of that…