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The Problem of Life 'VITRUVIAN' MAN Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing illustrates the theory of proportion worked out by the first-century Roman architect, Vitruvius.The theory proposed that a wellproportioned human body with feet together and arms outstretched fitted exactly into a square: a spread-eagled body, on the other hand, could be inscribed in a circle centred on the navel.Although Leonardo collected much data from living models, the reduction of human to geometrical proportion proved impossible.This Procrustean exercise has, however, been continued in a more abstract manner, and with greater success, by Leonardo's modern successors: the molecular biologists and biophysicists.
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