This is why the Vitruvian Man is so important to Mankind.

Many are familiar with the iconic figure encompassed with a circle and a square, but very few understand is message. Leonardo da Vinci drew The Vitruvian Man in approximately 1487 in one of his notebooks. The world famous drawing known as the Canon of Properties or Proportions of Man has its origins in Ancient Rome and the preceding Greek (Hellenic) Classics.

Leonardo’s drawing was an inspiration of Roman Architect Vitruvius who wrote a treatise De Architectura, known today as the Ten Books of Architecture. The drawing implies a symbol of the essential symmetry of the human body, and by extension, of the universe as a whole.

As an inventor Leonardo understood that all inventions must be built with the human body as the system to support with two primary geometric structures the square and the circle.

• When visiting a building the architect designed the structure not only to fit tenants but to emulate the proportions of the human body.
• Cars are designed to fix the average size of person and features are placed in anatomical proportion to an average user.