The Beauty of Diagrams - Series in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.
Vitruvian Man - He looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to architecture, and defines our species like no other drawing before or since.
The Vitruvian Man, drawn in the 1480s when he was living and working in Milan, has become one of the most famous images in the world.
Leonardo's drawings form a vast body of work, covering every imaginable subject in spectacular detail: from feet, skulls and hands to muscles and sinews; from hearts and lungs to buildings, bridges and flying machines.
