The article describes in detail the contribution of the outstanding scientist Leonardo da Vinci to the development of medicine. Leonardo da Vinci is known to most as a great artist. Many people know him as the creator of complex technical devices: in this field of activity, he had a huge number of original ideas. The idea of him has expanded significantly over the past decades, after a collection of his manuscripts on geometry, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, astronomy, geology and botany was discovered in Madrid. His achievements in the field of medicine are no less brilliant, but they are least known, which is why it becomes necessary to turn to this particular area of his activity and to evaluate from the height of today his research in the field of anatomy Study of the history of medicine is necessary for the formation of scientific outlook and moral position of medical students, raising the level of general and professional culture, familiarity with the history of medical ethics. And just as there can be no doctor without knowledge of anatomy, there can be no anatomy without its history. The biographies and life paths of the great scientists of the past, one of the vivid examples of which is Leonardo da Vinci, can lead anatomists of the present and the future to improve their knowledge, professional development and more active participation in scientific life. Most people know Leonardo da Vinci as an artist, artist and technologist, but after reading this work, we are convinced that Leonardo is also a great anatomist who has made a great contribution to the development of medicine. Also, Leonardo da Vinci can be called for the best and greatest anatomist not only of his era, but also the greatest researcher of the subsequent time. Although the conceived comprehensive treatise on Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomy was never completed, Leonardo’s works on anatomy are undoubtedly unique monuments and masterpieces of anatomical science, and although modern anatomy revolves around such new methods of visualization, as computed or magnetic resonance imaging, have moved forward, but Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings are so accurate and demonstrative that they have been used as illustrations in medical textbooks to date in the 21st century. The entire history of medicine is inextricably linked to the name of the man whose genius became a symbol of the Renaissance.
Leonardo da Vinci, history of medicine, anatomy, biography
«Bulletin of problems biology and medicine» Issue 3 (152), 2019 year, 12-15 pages, index UDK 061.75
