Vesalius, who published his momentous De Humani Corporis Fabrica ( The Structure of the Human Body) in 1543, is generally thought of as the father of anatomy he may not have had that designation if Leonardo had published his drawings in his time. In all his ventures, especially the anatomical studies, he saw no separation between art and science, one enhanced the other. His intellectual curiosity was manic, always going from project to project, often not completing work for which he was paid. His imagination embraced enterprises well beyond his painting. During his lifetime, 1452 to 1519, he commented on, enlarged upon, developed virtually every aspect of nature and human activity. He could have gone on for hours describing his imaginative inventions from acoustics to military machines, to city planning, to hydrodynamics, to flying, to architecture. What about my work on mechanics and especially my investigations and depictions of human anatomy, far more important. Unhappy, Leonardo, a man of some pride, turned away from the OR thinking, Small stuff, naming a surgical machine because I invented the first robot. You may know that I was the first to describe vision as the result of light entering the eyes.” 1,2When she does turn, she sees nothing, thinks, Weird, I should have had coffee before checking the elephants. I’m not impressed, but your optics are satisfactory. My robot, in human form, could sit, stand, move its arms and neck, close its mouth, swing his head side-to-side. But the voice sounds distant, wave-like, choppy as if his vocal cords were lagging behind his brain: “So this is my namesake-my robot could do much more than translate hands. Though slightly distracted, she does not turn, assuming one of the nurses. That Monday morning as she sits at the console with her hands nested in their control compartments to test the moves of each of the robotic arms, duplicating the maneuvers she will use in the heart, she senses someone behind her. But if asked why the naming of the elephants, they would not know. They might even recognize his two most famous works, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Of course the engineer and the surgeon identify the name, Leonardo da Vinci, as a painter. Both the surgeon and the engineer understand the complex device, know that it is the robot that extends the surgeon’s hands, enabling her to more precisely manipulate instruments through minimal incisions. ![]() Machines: labeled by the business office, which paid a million plus, as the Da Vinci Surgical System. ![]() An engineer might differ with the doctor and specify that the elephants are inorganic a console, a robot with the arms of an octopus that dwells over an operating table, and a monitor, each about six feet tall and three feet wide, a herd. At that early hour, alone with her elephants, she feels closely connected to them, her better hands. Before any heart operation she always checks the elephants in the room. for her eight o’clock mitral valve repair. The surgeon comes to the operating room at seven a.m. Drawing of the heart and its blood vessels
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