Muscle+History-kap

media type="custom" key="820269" While our teacher was away, the class was assigned a project that would continue to take a little over two class periods to complete. I was partnered with Lydia Heter (of course). The project was to learn about the origins of anatomy. To do so, Lydia and I researched four main men; Leonardo da Vinci, Andreas Vesalius, Bartolommeo Eustachi, and ** Henry Gray. ** ** It was really cool to discover how these men differentiated in thought, thus forming our understanding of anatomy and physiology today. Each contributed something to the understanding of anatomy. For example, Henry Gray’s “Grays Anatomy” is still used today to study anatomy because it was so advanced for its time. At first I thought that this project was given to us just to be busy work. I was proved wrong. By researching these four men and making a power point about them I was able to understand where the standard base for anatomy came from. I got to see who took an interest in the structure and functions of the human body and illustrated it. These four men took studying the body one step further. They went beyond what anyone else did. They researched and explored where others weren’t brave enough to go. It must have been cool to discover things that no one else knew. ** These men helped form the foundation for anatomy. ** His artwork was very realistic. It actually showed the traits of the human body. A perfect example was his art of the skull. It showed that everyone’s skulls are different sizes but has the same parts such as the parietal bone in the skull and so on. The works magnify the certain aspects of the body. In a torn up arm drawing it shows all of the tendons hanging out and how they are connected to the bone. He is ** known for highly detailed illustrations of human dissections, often in allegorical poses. **Leonardo da Vinci** Da Vinci likes to take an inside view of what is going on in the body. He has a detailed drawing of babies somewhat in the womb. He also has one of two people having sex. He shows everything that is going on inside. He also takes the skull and slices it up to get the inside view to see how everything is formed. **Bartolommeo Eustachi** His works are more animated but are still lifelike. They focus on the muscles in all the different poses so we can see how the muscles are forming with each other and how they are shaped. He shows the muscles to scale of a man. He like Da Vinci takes out a portion of a part of the body and shows what is on this inside as well as the outside. He did this with a skeleton as well.
 * Andreas Vesalius- **
 * Henry Gray **
 * He is more technical with his drawings. He shows them with math by them to show how big the average bone is that he is focusing on. He labels all of the parts that he is talking about. He is more of a sketch person. His drawings seem to be all in pencil. His pictures show all the different muscles and how they are forming around the specific part of the body. He focuses of proportions. He focuses on the muscles. He is one who likes to focus on details.  **