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Dentist Solves 500-Year-Old Mystery Hidden In Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man
The Da Vinci code’s riddle has been solved!
No, not the one from Dan Brown’s book that claims Jesus had a hidden wife who was, as it were, the Holy Grail.
The iconic “Vitruvian Man” picture of the human body by the Italian polymath, in which he has two sets of limbs and legs and his flesh and two vegetables are visible flopping out, contains the real Da Vinci code.
The Vitruvian Man is shown in the drawing as both a square and a circle, and a dentist thinks he has figured out something crucial about the whole thing, demonstrating that Leonardo Da Vinci was ahead of his time by hundreds of years.
There is more to Da Vinci’s well-known illustration than we all first realised, according to a paper written by the dentist in question, Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney.
“If you open your legs enough that your head is lowered by one-fourteenth of your height and raise your hands enough that your extended fingers touch the line of the top of your head, know that the centre of the extended limbs will be the navel, and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle,” the Italian mastermind writes in his own notes, which are located just above the illustration.
Da Vinci really wrote down the solution for us, therefore it was actually concealed in plain sight all along.
The dentist claims that an equilateral triangle can be created by drawing a line from the Vitruvian Man’s belly button to the point where his outer feet—for want of a better term—join the circle.
However, Dr. Mac Sweeney claims that this triangle’s dimensions are crucial since it has a tetrahedral ratio of 1.64-1.65, which is extremely close to the ratio of 1.633 and essentially forms the ideal triangle for a building.
According to the dentist, Leonardo Da Vinci used “sophisticated geometric understanding rather than arbitrary artistic choices” when he designed Vitrivian Man.
Da Vinci essentially discovered the ideal shapes centuries before anybody else did, or took the time to record them in records that have survived long enough to be found online.
Everything from building architecture to human anatomy to grocery store item stacking uses these precise triangles.
This seems to be proof that Da Vinci would have done a darn fine job of shelf stacking, even if his considerable intelligence would have been squandered in that role.
It appears that Da Vinci’s true code is that the Vitruvian Man is both a work of art and science since the human body and its structure “reflects universal mathematical principles.”
Given that this exact triangle can be found in the human jawbone according to a discovery made in the 19th century called the Bonwill Triangle, it may not be surprising that it took a dentist to solve the puzzle.
Remember that Da Vinci arrived there first.
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