Low Tech . . . and Timeless

Science Magazine has published its 2006 Visualization Challenge Winners, and among them--as 2nd place winner in the Illustration division-- is this version of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (first drawn more than 500 years ago). Biology teacher Caryn Babaian of Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania,

uses the iconic sketch as a "multi-conceptual image" in her introductory anatomy class to illustrate three crucial anatomical concepts: rotation, transparency, and transverse section. Babaian requires her students to draw the image in their notebooks as they watch it take shape on the blackboard.

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