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OCR: JOGRAPHY The Botanist any students botany, the study of plants, The positions of the umbilical consider Leonardo to be and embryo were surprisingly the founder botanical science correct He was also the first to draw Before Leonardo only magi icians parts of the body in cross-section and makers of medicines were labeling the individual parts. This concerned with plants But when he method still used today studied plants Leonardo made detailed observations and drawings He paid special attention to the eve which are as good as anv used and understood what are now todav His discoveries known to be basic principles of botany included that the optics He noted correctly that age ofa tree could be images are reversed on the human determined by the retina, and remarked on the bending number of rings ...