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It makes you wonder how far we've come from the 14th and 15th century when the church would have anyone who performed an autopsy arrested...
Leonardo DaVinci used to have dead bodies smuggled to him so that he could perform clandestine autopsies on them.. He wanted to learn about the human body, from a medical perspective, but he also said that it was the only way that he could ever truly learn to paint people in a lifelike way.. .. examining them from the inside out.
It sounds strange... Likely he would have been executed (or maybe just excommunicated?) if found out though..
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