Transcription: The analogy of the microcosm and macrocosm is very ancient. The basic notion of it is that the body is the lesser world, is the microcosm, and inside ourselves we contain through how our body works and is designed a kind of miniature model of the Earth and the universe as a whole. Where Leonardo is remarkable in looking at the microcosm and macrocosm is not necessarily the basic idea, but the way he is able to give it a new vitality and visual form. By translating it into visual form, by drawing the body of the earth, by drawing the body of the human being, he's able to give the microcosm and ...
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