Dissecting Leonardo's Anatomy
 
Stones

The Skeleton

 

       

Stones and the Skeleton

On Leonardo's studies of the movement of the earth:

"Thus Leonardo made his superb observations on fossils in order to validate his lovely, but ever so antiquated, view of a causally meaningful and precise unity between the human body as a microcosm and the earth as a macrocosm" (Gould 43).