Kathrine Frich
Dr Mac Sweeney isn’t just a dentist; he’s also a trained geneticist.
Dr Mac Sweeney isn’t just a dentist; he’s also a trained geneticist.
A 500-Year-Old Mystery, Solved?
A London-based dentist believes he’s finally cracked the real Da Vinci Code, one of history’s most enduring puzzles.
Dr Rory Mac Sweeney claims to have uncovered a hidden anatomical structure within Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, a drawing that has baffled scholars for over five centuries.
The Vitruvian Man: Art Meets Science
Leonardo’s iconic sketch depicts a perfectly proportioned man within a square and a circle, symbolizing harmony between art, anatomy, and mathematics.
Though admired for centuries, the deeper meaning of this Renaissance masterpiece has eluded experts, until now.
A Dentist with a Scientific Edge
Dr Mac Sweeney isn’t just a dentist; he’s also a trained geneticist.
His unique background gave him the insight to spot a geometric clue others missed: an equilateral triangle embedded within the Vitruvian Man’s pose, hidden in plain sight.
The Secret Triangle Revealed
The triangle, located between the figure’s legs, matches what anatomists call “Bonwill’s triangle”, a structure that governs optimal jaw mechanics.
This discovery may explain da Vinci’s obsession with symmetry and balance in human design.
The Blueprint of Nature?
Mac Sweeney notes that the triangle produces a near-perfect ratio of 1.634, remarkably close to nature’s “special blueprint number.”
This ratio is found in everything from the human jaw to the atomic structure of crystals, suggesting da Vinci sensed a universal design rule.
“He Was Pointing to It All Along”
According to Mac Sweeney, the answer was hiding in Leonardo’s own writings.
“We’ve all been looking for a complicated answer,” he said. “What’s truly amazing is that this one drawing encapsulates a universal rule of design.”
More Than Just Art
Dr Mac Sweeney believes the Vitruvian Man is not just a historic drawing but a scientific marvel.
“Leonardo knew, or at least sensed, that our bodies are built with the same mathematical elegance as the universe around us,” he said.
