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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image Subclass Code_1OI she's got to prove it—andThis is the story of Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing of a man in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit, the figure appears on everything from coffee cups and T shirts to book covers and corporate logos. In short, it has become the world's most famous cultural icon, yet almost nobody knows anything about it.