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Toby Lester is a contributing editor to The Atlantic and the author of Da Vinci's Ghost (2012) and The Fourth Part of the World (2009).

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The History Of The Vitruvian Man

Posted February 16, 2012 | 02/16/12 08:37 AM ET

You know the picture. Everybody does. It's Leonardo da Vinci's iconic man in a circle and the
square, the figure known as Vitruvian Man--or, as Tim Howard, a producer at Radiolab once aptly put it to me, "the naked guy doing jumping jacks."

But if everybody knows...

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