Whenever I see things like this I try to imagine what sort of common knowledge exited around that time and what the reactions of the people might have been. So

Whenever I see things like this I try to imagine what sort of common knowledge exited around that time and what the reactions of the people might have been. Some are more immediately powerful than others of course. I can imagine De Humani Corporis Fabrica being extremely startling to the people of that time. In the modern day might that type of leap might even be considered contemporary art. Copernicus's "Heliocentric Universe" is probably one of the most powerful drawings on the list, can you imagine the paradigm shift these views forced upon the world? I don't think we have had any leap of similar magnitude since the atomic age. I really really love this, its like looking back in time.