Introductions
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was very brilliant and a leading artist. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was inspired by Vitruvius; a Roman engineer and architect during the first century B.C., shows how the proportions of the human body fit perfectly into a circle or a square. The drawing shows a man standing in a square, which is inside a circle and the man has two pair of outstretched arms and to pair of outstretched legs. Vitruvius’ theory was that a man’s arm span is equal to his height.
This experiment was conducted to see if da Vinci and Vitruvius were accurate and proportional to every person. I took specific measurements related to their theory and compared them to the Vitruvian Man. Before the …show more content…
The measurements were recorded and compared. Vitruvius’ theory also includes that one fourth of a person’s height are equal to the following: width of shoulders, top of head to middle of chest, middle of chest to top of leg, top of leg to bottom of knee cap and bottom of knee to bottom of foot. These measurements were taken, observed, and recorded. Vitruvius followed a mathematical formula to calculate his theory which was that one fifth of a person's height was equal to their elbow to the tips of their fingers; that one eighth of a person’s height was equal to their elbow to center of their armpit; that one tenth of a person’s height was equal to their whole hand; and that one sevenths of a person’s height is equal to the back of their foot to their longest toe. Finally, Vitruvius focused on precise measurements of the face. To start, the following measurements were taken: bottom of chin to nose, hair roots to eyebrows, and the ear. In theory these should all be an equal measurement by adding them up and dividing them by three. The dependant variable of the experiment was my body parts that were being measured. The independent variable of the experiment were the
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was very brilliant and a leading artist. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was inspired by Vitruvius; a Roman engineer and architect during the first century B.C., shows how the proportions of the human body fit perfectly into a circle or a square. The drawing shows a man standing in a square, which is inside a circle and the man has two pair of outstretched arms and to pair of outstretched legs. Vitruvius’ theory was that a man’s arm span is equal to his height.
This experiment was conducted to see if da Vinci and Vitruvius were accurate and proportional to every person. I took specific measurements related to their theory and compared them to the Vitruvian Man. Before the …show more content…
The measurements were recorded and compared. Vitruvius’ theory also includes that one fourth of a person’s height are equal to the following: width of shoulders, top of head to middle of chest, middle of chest to top of leg, top of leg to bottom of knee cap and bottom of knee to bottom of foot. These measurements were taken, observed, and recorded. Vitruvius followed a mathematical formula to calculate his theory which was that one fifth of a person's height was equal to their elbow to the tips of their fingers; that one eighth of a person’s height was equal to their elbow to center of their armpit; that one tenth of a person’s height was equal to their whole hand; and that one sevenths of a person’s height is equal to the back of their foot to their longest toe. Finally, Vitruvius focused on precise measurements of the face. To start, the following measurements were taken: bottom of chin to nose, hair roots to eyebrows, and the ear. In theory these should all be an equal measurement by adding them up and dividing them by three. The dependant variable of the experiment was my body parts that were being measured. The independent variable of the experiment were the