Medieval and Renaissance images of the brain and the cerebral ventricles
This illustration is from a 1444 manuscript edition of the Anathomia of Mondino. At top: sensus communis. The next labels down, to the left and right, are: fantasia ymaginatio. The middle of the head is labeled ratio cogitativa. The base of the brain is labeled: virtus memorialis. Below the head is written: Avicenna dissentit a Galieno et Aristotele (Avicenna [Ibn Sina] disagrees with Galen and Aristotle).
| 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 11. |
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