{"id":114,"date":"2018-12-28T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-12-29T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T15:42:24","slug":"vitruvian-man-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/28\/vitruvian-man-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitruvian Man Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Vitruvian-Man-Prob-Da-Vinci-Drawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"272\" \/>This is a mildly pointless 2015 article about Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s famous drawing of the Vitruvian Man spread-eagled and inscribed in a circle and a square. I started wondering about the positions and whether they over-determined the circle and square. What hidden constraints were being assumed? One assumption turned out to be famous, namely, that the height of a man equaled the distance between his finger tips when he holds his arms straight out to either side of his body. I had been told this in childhood, and I never knew where it came from. Also, I don\u2019t think it is true in every case (what about women?), though it does appear to be close (and is true in my case). See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Vitruvian-Man-Problem-150205.pdf\">Vitruvian Man Problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a mildly pointless 2015 article about Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s famous drawing of the Vitruvian Man spread-eagled and inscribed in a circle and a square. I started wondering about the positions and whether they over-determined the circle and square. What hidden constraints were being assumed? One assumption turned out to be famous, namely, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,7,13],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-questions","tag-cartography","tag-math-history","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}