ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how artistic representations were crucial for scientists who wished to convey things which could not be seen with the naked eye. But while Galileo Galilei and Santiago Ramon y Cajal intentionally employed art as a means to relate scientific facts, there are other examples – where events of scientific import were captured almost accidentally in artistic works. Several examples further highlight the relationship between art and science at a time when few other means existed to communicate complex ideas to a wider audience. Over 200 years later European, Ramon y Cajal of Spain, would look through a similar configuration of lenses, this time directing his gaze inward, not at the stars but at a target almost as great in number. Several historians have claimed that contained within the several panels are hidden anatomical images which highlight Michelangelo Buonarroti's mastery of human anatomy in addition to his prowess as an artist and architect.
