Medieval and Renaissance images of the brain and the cerebral ventricles
Image from Gregor Reisch, Margarita Philosohica (published 1504). The labels from left to right are: sensus communis, fantasia, ymaginativa, vermis, cogitativa, estimativa, memorativa.
| 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 14. |
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