Medieval and Renaissance images of the brain and the cerebral ventricles
This is from a Munich manuscript c.1435. The three compartments are labeled (1) ymaginatio vel fantasia (2) aestimativa vel cogitativa vel cognitiva (3) memorativa vel reminiscentia.
| Reference: Sudhoff, W. (1913) Die Lehre von den Hirnventrikeln in textlicher und graphischer Tradition des Altertums und Mittelalters. Archiv. Fur Geschichte der Medizin VII, 149-205, figure 10. |
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