Dentist Deciphe Puzzle Geometric Centenary in the Vitruvian Man of Da Vinci

An equilateral triangle between the legs of Vitruvian man replicates another form found in the anatomy of the human maxillary known as the Bonwill triangle.

A new published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts reports the discovery of a detail hidden in the famous Drawing of Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci. The discovery explains how the Renaissance artist perfectly placed the man’s outline inside a circle and a square.

According to Rory Mac Sweeney, the London dentist who is also the study’s author, Da Vinci’s trick was an equilateral triangle “hidden in sight of all“.” The triangle can be found between the man’s legs in the drawing and is not just a random form, “he explains.

The shape of the triangle corresponds to another found in the modern anatomy known as the “Bonwill triangle“, Which explains how the human jaw works most efficiently, explains the.

This imaginary triangle is created when connecting the centers of the points where the lower jaw joins the skull with the point of the middle of the central item of the jaw. This concept is used by dentists to perceive the anatomy of patients’ jaws and Helps design proportional prostheses and aligned.

Sweeney believes that the presence of this triangle in Vitruvian man is not a coincidence, but rather an indication that Vinci already knew of this concept Anatomical long before this being general knowledge in modern science.

The presence of this triangle in the drawing also helps to create an exact proportion of 1.64 between the size of the square and circle, a value almost identical to 1.633, a number that often appears in the more efficient structures of nature.

“Leonardo’s systematic construction produces a ratio from 1.64 to 1.65 between the side of the square and the radius of the circle, corresponding to both the published measures of the original design and the tetrahedral reason of 1,633 found in great space arrangements,” the study noted.

The author praises the way Da Vinci’s apparent simple design was centuries ahead of his time at the scientific level. “What is really amazing is that this drawing encapsulates a universal rule of design. It shows that the same ‘project’ that nature uses for efficient design is in action in the ideal human body. Leonardo knew, or felt, that our bodies are built with the same mathematical elegance as the universe around us, ”says Sweeney.