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Every once in a while I come across something that really expands my mind and forces me to sit back and think about it for while. Today's post is about one of those moments.
I found this amazingly cool and I hope you do as well. A dentist, who is obviously well schooled in both dental anatomy, mathematics, and art recently published an article about a concept he noticed in Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic image Vitruvian Man.
The image was done to basically show the perfection of the design of the human body in its proportions. It shows a man surrounded by a square and a circle and how those perfect shapes relate to human anatomy. However, Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney also noticed that the triangle formed by the figures legs also relates to Bonwill's Triangle which was discovered by Dr. William Bonwill in 1864.
This fascinating little piece of trivia and discovery was recently published in The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. That article is a pretty heavy read and requires some decent thinking to digest. However, there is also an article about this in Popular Mechanics that does an explanation that's a bit easier to understand.
This also relates a bit to the Golden Ratio or Golden Proportion that can be used to find the ideal lenght and width of teeth in the cosmetic zone. As a science lover and die hard geek, I find info like this fascinating. Art really does imitate life and it seems that Dr.Rory Mac Sweeney has an even better way to prove that. Be sure to click on the links for the full story of this. Enjoy!
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