--Ed.
(24) He was the first to make and represent anatomical cross
sections. See Leonardo: Quaderni d'Anatomia, Jacob Dybwad,
Kristiania, 1911-1916, Vol. V.
(25) See Knox: Great Artists and Great Anatomists, London, 1862,
and Mathias Duval in Les Manuserits de Leonard de Vince: De
l'Anatomie, Feuillets A, Edouard Rouveyre, Paris, 1898. For a
good account of Leonardo da Vinci see Merejkovsky's novel, The
Forerunner, London, 1902, also New York, Putnam.
HARVEY
LET us return to Padua about the year 1600. Vesalius, who made the
school the most famous anatomical centre in Europe, was succeeded by
Fallopius, one of the best-known names in anatomy, at whose death an
unsuccessful attempt was made to get Vesalius back. He was succeeded in
1565 by a remarkable man, Fabricius (who usually bears the added name
of Aquapendente, from the town of his birth), a worthy follower of
Vesalius. In 1594, in the thirtieth year of his professoriate, he built
at his own expense a new anatomical amphitheatre, which still exists
in the university buildings. It is a small, high-pitched room with six
standing-rows for auditors rising abruptly one above the other. The
arena is not much more than large enough for the dissecting table which,
by a lift, could be brought up from a preparing room below.
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