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Gregor Reisch’s illustration of olfactory bulbs overlying the bridge of the nose to the sensus communis in the anterior cell or ventricle (1503)

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German Carthusian humanist writer Gregor Reisch (c 1467-1525) published an influential and highly copied woodcut in his Margarita philosophica (1503), showing connections from the olfactory bulbs overlying the bridge of the nose to the sensus communis in the anterior cell or ventricle.

(Source: Reisch G. Margarita philosophica. Friburghi [Freiburg im Breisgau]: Joanne[s] Schottu[s] Argen[torati] [Strasbourg], 1503.)

See also:
Lanska DJ. The medieval cell doctrine: foundations, development, evolution, and graphic representations in printed books from 1490 to 1630. J Hist Neurosci 2022a;31[2-3]:115-75.
Lanska DJ. Representations of the olfactory bulb and tracts in images of the medieval cell doctrine. J Hist Neurosci 2022b;31[2-3]:176-99.