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eonardo Da Vinci is famous as a painter, sculptor and inventor. In reality he was so much more, with the range of topics in his arsenal of knowledge being anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to name a few. He did play a large role in the development of knowledge about anatomy and the human body. He was one of the greatest anatomists of his time, although unrecognized for it during his lifetime. Today-more than five hundred years after it was created, there is probably no more recognizable drawing of the human body than Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man".
"Vitruvian Man", although well known, many people still do not know the meaning, or the idea that Da Vinci was trying to portray other than a man with four arms and four legs. The drawing is supposed to represent the same man superimposed in two different positions. Like many things associated with Da Vinci it has a mathematic basis to it. He was attempting to enforce a scientific method using......

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Title: Leonardo Davinci's Accomplishments In Anatomy
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