Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ close to modern proportions
Some five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci sketched what he believed was the perfectly proportioned male body. Now, scientists have compared the ‘Vitruvian Man’ with nearly 64,000 physically fit men and women and discovered da Vinci was very close to anatomical measurements of the modern-day human. The team found the groin height, shoulder width … Read more
