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The Heart (Da Vinci)
a
brilliant investigation of the heart
understood perfectly
Leonardo always intended to publish a treatise on anato-
my
However, like so many of Leonar-
do’s projects, the book was never completed
This is the heart
The Heart (detail), about 1512
1512 Copernicus announced his theory that the
planets revolve around the sun
1513 Leonardo moved to Rome
Opening the body
Anatomy of a soul
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Phyllis Rosenzweig was a curator for many years at the Hirshhorn Museum. Her writing has appeared in several magazines and journals. Her publications include the chapbooks Seventeen Poems (O Press, 1975), Dogs (Edge Books, 1996), Reasonable Accommodation (Potes and Poets Press, 1997), and Girls (Primary Writing Books, 2011). From 1995 to 2008 she and Diane Ward co-published the poetry journal Primary Writing. She currently edits Primary Writing Books. She lives in Washington, D.C. [Author photo by Alan Wallach.]
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Leonardo Da Vinci drawing of the heart
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