by Marie Curie 
Da Vinci Notes 10: The Old Man's Vessels
A man who said he was a hundred died beside me at Santa Maria Nuova. I opened him to see the cause of so sweet a death, and found it in his vessels.
Leonardo's centenarian dissection of 1507 to 1508: thickened, snake-like vessels, the child of two years, the oranges, and why narrow vessels carry so little blood.
Leonardo da Vinci
November 8, 2026
29 min