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How Did Leonardo Da Vinci Sketch Of The Vitruvian Man

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Problem: The famous and old Leonardo Da Vinci sketch called,”The Vitruvian Man“, is very well-known and studied because of its ties to many of the renaissance time periods ideas. It is a sketch showing the direct correlation of a human’s height and arm span to the length and width of a square that is congruent in area to a circle made of the man’s naval cavity to fingertip the measurement. It signified two things, that humans could fit into any form they choose whether it be a savage or a god; or that humans were the in the middle of the universe’s chain of command. This symbol has been representing the renaissance era since because of what it has been interpreted to represented. Knowing that there are some human body measurements that are equivalent I’ve decided to study one set which are the thumb and big toe’s length. There also could be a reason for some of our body parts to be equivalent to each other; it could possibly be a physical adaptation for humans to survive in the wild. For example the height of a human and the arm span could be equivelant to aid our performance at certain tasks such as swimming, or gathering food from trees. The relationship between our big toes and thumbs could aid some tasks or just our overall normal abilities. Specifically our ability to grasp items could be …show more content…

Then I will first proceed to label the subjects 1-20 and write their gender in the first column of my table and their ethnicity in the second. Then i will write their gender and carry on to the next step of my table, big toe measurements. I will have them line up from 1-20 and measure their right big toe from their tip to their big toe joint; following that i will record all the data in my third column on my table. Lastly I will have them repeat the same process except i will be measureing their right thumb from the tip to the MCP joint, and record the data in my last

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