Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Statistics project
On our first meeting for our statistics project, we have to decide on which topic to do. After much discussion, we finally settled with question 4, regarding Leonardo's work on how the size of one body part is related to that of another body part.
Next, we have to decide on which parts of the body do we want to compare with as there are quite a number of choices for us to choose. Suddenly, one of us suggested we can compare the height and the arm span of a person and the other four members agreed to the idea as many of us find it interesting as we never thought that how is it possible the height and the arm span of a person will be the same.
1. Introduction
Our main objective for this research is to find out the size of one body part is related to that of another body part for the purpose of instructing painters on how to paint the human body according to Leonardo’s work. For example, our group is doing on whether the distance from fingertip to fingertip (arm span) should be equal to the distance from head to heel (height).
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a scientist and an artist, one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. In 1492 he drew the picture of a man standing inside a circle and a square.
This is known as the ‘Vitruvian Man’. The ‘Vitruvian Man’ is commonly associated with health/fitness, and with the practice of medicine till today. In some cases, the ‘Vitruvian Man’ is himself taken as an embodishment of health. In other cases he seems to be used more symbolically, as an image of science, art and proportion enmeshed to embody the practice of medicine. In some cases, the ‘Vitruvian Man’ may be taken, more or less, at face value as an image of a balanced, healthy man.
Leonardo believed that arm span was equal to height in a perfectly proportioned body. Whenever there are assumptions, there would be doubts. Hence, here we are trying to prove whether the Vitruvius’ theory is true or not. In order to prove whether this theory is reliable or not, we are testing the relationship between the arm span and the height of a person.
On our first meeting for our statistics project, we have to decide on which topic to do. After much discussion, we finally settled with question 4, regarding Leonardo's work on how the size of one body part is related to that of another body part.
Next, we have to decide on which parts of the body do we want to compare with as there are quite a number of choices for us to choose. Suddenly, one of us suggested we can compare the height and the arm span of a person and the other four members agreed to the idea as many of us find it interesting as we never thought that how is it possible the height and the arm span of a person will be the same.
1. Introduction
Our main objective for this research is to find out the size of one body part is related to that of another body part for the purpose of instructing painters on how to paint the human body according to Leonardo’s work. For example, our group is doing on whether the distance from fingertip to fingertip (arm span) should be equal to the distance from head to heel (height).
This is known as the ‘Vitruvian Man’. The ‘Vitruvian Man’ is commonly associated with health/fitness, and with the practice of medicine till today. In some cases, the ‘Vitruvian Man’ is himself taken as an embodishment of health. In other cases he seems to be used more symbolically, as an image of science, art and proportion enmeshed to embody the practice of medicine. In some cases, the ‘Vitruvian Man’ may be taken, more or less, at face value as an image of a balanced, healthy man.
Leonardo believed that arm span was equal to height in a perfectly proportioned body. Whenever there are assumptions, there would be doubts. Hence, here we are trying to prove whether the Vitruvius’ theory is true or not. In order to prove whether this theory is reliable or not, we are testing the relationship between the arm span and the height of a person.
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