Each example here is superimposed with a diagrammatic series of circle/square junctures, and the direct relationship between the examples and the diagram is self evident. In the case of the orbital rings of the solar system, progressive circle/square junctures occur between the orbits of Venus and Earth, Mars and Jupiter, and Saturn and Neptune.


Polyclitus' Doryphorus


Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man


Andrea Palladio's Villa Capra


Part of the Solar System:
The outer red circle represents the orbit of Neptune, with the next inner red circle representing Saturn, etc.



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