Leonardo da Vinci was an artist widely acclaimed for his paintings and drawings. While he was formally trained in the fine arts, he was extremely interested in different fields of science including engineering and human anatomy. In fact, some say that he was obsessed with anatomy and drew almost 800 anatomical illustrations. The heart was one thing he really studied. He drew many illustrations of the heart and all of its parts. Leonardo claims to have dissected more than 10 human bodies in order to study the anatomy of the body. He wanted to know how the heart worked. He relied on the studies of past scientists such as Aristotle, Galen, Avicenna and de Luzzi. With da Vinci’s studies he was able to cause some disbelief of Galen’s theories whose
