Piero della Francesca and multiplanar recons

From Piero della Francesca's, De prospectiva pingendi, Book 3, figure lxiv. Casa Editrice Le Lettere

The brain continues to be represented using projections first devised in Renaissance Italy to illustrate the head; and for the neuroscientist 600 years later, Piero's little known illustrations provide a remarkable legacy of graphic representation that endures to this day

GD Schott
Perspectives, The art of medicine: Piero della Francesca's projections and neuroimaging today
The Lancet 2008; 372:1378-1379
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61576-7
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608615767/fulltext