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Vitruvian Man Vitruvian Man is Leonardo da Vinci's own reflection on human proportion and architecture, made clear through words and image. The purpose of the illustration is to bring together ideas about art, architecture, human anatomy and symmetry in one distinct and commanding image. By combing text and illustration, da Vinci evokes a meaning which could not be created through words or image alone.

Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are as follows that is that 4 fingers made 1 palm, and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man. The length of a manâ€™s outspread arms is equal to his height. From the roots of his hair to the bottom of his chin is the tenth of a manâ€™s height; from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head is one eighth of his height; from the top of the breast to the roots of the hair will be the seventh part of the whole man. From the nipples to the top of the head will be the fourth part of man. The greatest width of the shoulders contains in itself the fourth part of man. From the elbow to the tip of the hand will be the fifth part of a man; and from the elbow to the angle of the armpit will be the eighth part of man. The whole hand will be the tenth part of the man. The distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose and from the roots of the hair to the eyebrows is, in each case the same, and like the ear, a third of the face.
Architecture & proportion
Renaissance archiects seem to have truly believed that "Man is the measure of all things."
â€œAs Wittkower emphasizes, this is not evidence of an anthropocentric world view. Since man was made in the image of God, so it was believed the proportions exemplified in the humn form would reflect a divine and cosmic order" (Steadman 17).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man

veddy veddy innerestin' :thinking: thanks, joe! :hibye:

it has also been observed that, from the micro- to the macro- (from the smallest building blocks of creation, currently called "strings" for lack of a better term, ... to the largest distance in all of the universe) ... the measure of man (about six feet in height) stands right in the middle of the (logarithmic) scale.

things that make you go hmmmmm. :whistle:

take care, joe. :friends: and don't be a stranger, okie dokie? :ok:

Yes, they sure do make me go Hmmmm? Didn't understand anything you just stated, Isomam!!! Never did grasp anything mathematical!!:huh::shocked::confused
Agape,
Grateful :giverose:

grateful Wrote:

Didn't understand anything you just stated, Isomam!!! Never did grasp anything mathematical!!

Don't lose any sleep over it. ;) We will all have a thousand years to start; ... and, forever to continue learning about "all things" -- mathematical and otherwise. :grouphug:

I probably didn't express myself very well in trying to convey my thought as to the scale of things.

If you will, picture a line (a continuum) with "Smallest" at the left end of the line and "Largest" at the extreme right end.

Think of that line as the line on a dimmer switch, where sliding the calibrator "up" causes the light in the room to brighten; and, conversely, sliding the dimmer switch "down" diminishes the brightness, ... incrementally.

The smallest building blocks (keep in mind, we are only talking about physical things; no implication as to "spiritual" things) are simply called "strings" for now. (Hence, "String Theory.") They are the smallest any-thing can be physically, without losing all properties of spacial relationship ("thing"-ness). Their spatial dimension is what is termed the "Plank distance" (for Max Plank, physicist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries); that distance is said to be "1" (centimeter) "to the power of minus 33." That is, a decimal point followed by 32 "zero's" and a "1." Written out like this: 0.000000000000000000000000000000001 ... centimeters. :shocked:

At the other extreme ("Largest") we will have a number which is only the "largest" distance that man has thus far been able to verify (@15 billion light years). A "light year" is the distance that light travels in one of our earth-years: That distance is approximately 9 1/2 trillion kilometers (or, around 6 trillion -- 6,000,000,000,000 -- miles). That's the distance light travels in one year. When we multiply that by fifteen billion years, well, it's a pretty big number (@ 9,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles) for the distance we can measure in the universe, huh? (That's not to say there might not be vast unknown distances yet waiting to be discovered.

Anyhoo, from those infinitesimally-small 'things,' to those near-infinitely-large distances, man would be right in the middle of our "line" (the continuum). One small caveat: The increments by which the "line" progresses are exponential (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.) rather than linear (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). So on our continuum line, the distance between -- say, for example, --"16" and "32" is the same as the distance between "2" and "4"; or, for that matter, the same as the distance between "512" and "1,024." To be a little more precise, the distance between "1" and "10" is the same as the distance between "10" and "100"; or, the distance between "100" and "1,000." (That is what I meant by "logarithmic.")

And, on that continuum "line," the average height dimension of man/woman (between 5 and 6 feet) would be found near the middle of the continuum line.

And you thought you were confused before, huh? :huh:

Like I said, don't worry about it. Faith in God and Christ is the thing that does matter right now. Not much else.

Let's get back to the subject of Joe's thread, now, okie dokie? :ok: (Sorry for the distraction, Joe.) :giverose:

Christian Love to you, sis Grateful, :love:

your friend and brother, ... isomam

thanks for bringing this up artcritic :)

info re: Fibonacci sequence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

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Hmmmm!! Yes, I thought I was confused before Isomam!:huh: Good job I have a 1,000 years to start learning. Or should that be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, with even more zeroes added? :thinking: I'm a slow learner!:confused::dontknow::huh::)
Agape, and thanks for tying to explain.:heartbeat::giverose:
Grateful:giverose:

gogh Wrote:

info re: Fibonacci sequence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

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Us Greekies after going phew!
Would start saying PHI, Î¦ ..........lowercase Ï†.

The golden ratio in mathematics, art, and architecture.

Phi is a ratio. It is derived by dividing a line segment into two parts in such a way that the ratio of the smaller segment to the larger segment is the same as the ratio of the large segment to the whole.

The number is irrational, meaning it never ends or repeats in a decimal system. To the first ten decimals, it is 1.6180339887 ...

This ratio occurs in the spiral of DNA up to and including spiral galaxies, and is one of the greatest proofs of a mathematical aesthetic creator.

http://creationwiki.org/Golden_ratio

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