Figure 16. Mansur ibn Ilyas.Tashrih-i badan-i insan. [Anatomy of the Human Body], Iran, ca. 1390. An early anatomical drawing from Persia tending toward symbolic representations of organs. The figure’s posture bears an interesting resemblance to the China’s Frog Classic, and Ancient Greece’s “Series of Five Pictures” (see Figure 5). Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.