Eternal Gardens Journal

Da Vinci Notes 08: The Skull and the Seat of the Senses

I sawed a skull in two, ruled a grid of twelve fingers over it, and found the meeting of the senses where my lines cross. Twenty years later I filled the brain's cells with wax.

Leonardo's 1489 skull drawings: the proportional grid, the senso comune where his axes cross, the wax cast of the ventricles, and what neuroscience found there.

Leonardo da Vinci · November 8, 2026 · 30 min