Beside this, Leonardo became instantly recognizable through his drawings such as Vitruvian Man,

showcasing the proportions of the human body. It is perhaps something of a cheat, with one circle

intimating both the reach of arms and legs, but it radiates esthetically (with stretched up hands

the length is about 2m and with horizontal hands the breadth of man is 1.4m, but stretched out

legs would get near 2m, even as I couldn’t do it. Even if I could, it wouldn’t correct the cheat).

Leonardo dissects corpses and draws them in unforgettable ways. By the end of his life Leonardo

claimed to have performed 30 human dissections, with the subjects usually executed criminals.

Today da Vinci lends his name to a computer assisted surgery machine. Initially termed "Lenny"

for the young Leonardo, it was ready for testing in 1997. The more advanced, models were named

"Leonardo", or "Mona". I don’t quite know which one I lost my prostate to.

Leonardo pointed out (and his illustration reflects as much) that Vitruvius’ square and circle

cannot have the same center. At least with humans as we know them. As a result, Leonardo’s

figure is centered at the groin rather than the navel, pulling the square down so it doesn’t rest

inside the circle. Along with centering the figure differently, Leonardo showed the figure with

hands raised to the top of its head and then superimposed on the image on top of the other. The

result is a figure with 16 different poses that owes as much or more to Leonardo as it does to

Vitruvius.

https://thescienceof.org/vitruvianman/

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