Editing Human skeleton (section)

===Renaissance===
[[Leonardo da Vinci]] made studies of the skeleton, albeit unpublished in his time.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sooke|first1=Alastair|title=Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy of an artist|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/leonardo-da-vinci/10202124/Leonardo-da-Vinci-Anatomy-of-an-artist.html|website=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=9 December 2016}}</ref> Many artists, [[Antonio del Pollaiuolo]] being the first, performed dissections for better understanding of the body, although they concentrated mostly on the muscles.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bambach |first1=Carmen |author-link1=Carmen C. Bambach |title=Anatomy in the Renaissance |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/HD/anat/hd_anat.htm |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History}}</ref> [[Vesalius]], regarded as the founder of modern anatomy, authored the book ''[[De humani corporis fabrica]]'', which contained many illustrations of the skeleton and other body parts, correcting some theories dating from Galen, such as the lower jaw being a single bone instead of two.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vesalius's Renaissance anatomy lessons|url=http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/vesalius/renaissance.html|website=www.bl.uk|access-date=18 December 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180207/http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/vesalius/renaissance.html}}</ref> Various other figures like [[Alessandro Achillini]] also contributed to the further understanding of the skeleton.