![]() With 27 wax bodies and 1500 part and organ studies, collected by Peter Leopold von Lothringen from places as diverse as churches, hospitals and universities, this is a veritable cathedral to the human form. Witness the eccentric Museo La Specola in Florence, a waxworks celebration of the interior. And it fascinated the curious of the 18th century. It has intrigued everyone from the Greeks through to Leonardo da Vincl. An understanding of the anatomy of the human body remains the foundation of medical science. ![]() It has for centuries been the site of the most concentrated human enquiry, and while many of its mysteries have been solved, it continues to fascinate, provoke and disturb. ![]() ![]() They say that learning its arrangement is like learning the road map of an entire country. ![]()
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