Secretum: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Anatomy of the Soul | Leonardo da Vinci - Ancient Origins

Leonardo Da Vinci, L'Uomo Vitruviano (Vitruvian Man), 
originally known as Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, 
(The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius), c. 1490. ( Pixabay License )

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was born in the middle of the Humanism movement – a search for the lost wisdom of the classical age that broke with the rigid schemes of the Middle Ages by Pierluigi Tombetti, historian, author and writer.

Leonardo da Vinci portrait and anatomical sketches.
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It provided an opening and a new vision of the world: man was no longer subdued and debased by life and by the weight of sin but felt, on the contrary, that he could take the reins and guide his destiny. Humanism brought him to the center of the universe, completely reassessing his position and his potential.

Leonardo was Between Humanism and the Renaissance 
This passionate investigation, which began mainly thanks to the studies of Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), also brought the recovery of the hermetic message and with it with the discovery of texts linked to the figure Hermes Trismegistus , the Egyptian Thoth, the ibis - God of wisdom, magic, time measurement, mathematics and geometry, and the inventor of writing. The Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) of the Corpus Hermeticum , presented to the Medici court in Florence in 1463, spread hermeticism and its religious and occult teachings among scholars; who saw it as a divine revelation reserved for initiates...

Divine Proportions: The Signature of God 
In his research Leonardo studied the divine proportion, a geometry inherent in creation that characterizes beauty and harmony. The human body is one of the most evident representations of this and Leonardo highlights it with the Vitruvian Man and by illustrating the De Divina Proportione (1509), a text by the mathematician Luca Pacioli on the golden ratio, a necessarily approximate number that corresponds to 1.618034. 
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Source: Ancient Origins