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Leonardo da Vinci, <em>Vitruvian Man</em>, 1487

Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1487

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is often used as a representation of symmetry in the human body and, by extension, the natural universe.

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