Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci is surely the most iconic image of the Renaissance. Yet this tantalizingly complex drawing still contains plenty of mysteries for today’s scientists to uncover. Last ...

A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has invited admiration but also bafflement. With its harmonious symmetry of limbs outstretched in both a square and a circle, the ...

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Claudio Sgarbi says he "was totally astonished" when he examined a manuscript including a drawing that seemed to prefigure Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man (C. 1490), Giacomo Andrea Da ...

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been puzzling scholars for centuries. Da Vinci, who was not only a famous artist but also an inventor, engineer, and scientist studying subjects like human ...