Accessibility InfoThis text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
“In this small space, the universe can be completely reproduced and rearranged in its entire vastness.”
Derived from ideal proportions devised by the Roman architect and artist Vitruvius (ca. 46-30 B.C.E.), the septagonal man inscribed in both a circle and a square has served as a puzzle and a model to art students and mathematicians over the centuries.
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