Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were PERFORMING AUTOPSY'S ON HUMAN CORPSES AT A TIME WHEN THIS WAS CONSIDERED A TABOO. 


"Corpus Callosum" depicted here by Michelangelo's rendering

"CORPUS Callosum" The unification of the Right and Left Hemispheres of the brain translates as:  "A thick tough bundle of nerves"

This is Leonardo's depiction of "the SEAT OF THE DIVINE" the location of WHICH WAS A MAJOR PHILOSOPICAL discourse OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE. 

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