Figures & data
Figure 1 Creation of Adam; fresco by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
Figure 2 A placenta.
Figure 3 God-placenta. The image of the placenta, made semi-transparent, covers the angel's choir and the umbilical cord fits in the space of the two arms ‘touching’ each other.
Figure 4 Amniotic fluid flow. On the right side: a detail of God's vest and a specimen of amniotic membranes. In the circle: round ligament and the salpinx.
Figure 5 School of Athens by Raphael Sanzio; fresco in the rooms adjacent to the Sistine Chapel. Raphael depicts Plato with the face of Leonardo (left in the middle frame), Heraclit with the face of Michelangelo (below, left), and himself in the crowd of scholars (below, right).
Figure 6 The head of God by Michelangelo (below, extreme right) as compared to the head of Plato, depicting Leonardo, by Raphael (below, right). The head of Adam by Michelangelo (below, extreme left) as compared to the head of Raphael in his self-portrait (below, left) as it appears mirrored by computer graphics.
