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Flemish artist Crispijn van de Passe II wanted to describe the perfect elephant. The question that occupied him was whether elephants had an optimal form.

By the year 1620 several elephants had visited the European continent. King Manuel I of Portugal gifted an elephant named Hanno from India to Pope Leo X in 1510. An elephant named Suleiman travelled through Spain, Portugal and Italy and died in Vienna in the 1550. He was stuffed and exhibited in Munich for centuries. A couple of years later, Emmanuel travelled through the Low Countries and Austria. The list does not dwindle even when we reach Hansken, the elephant immortalized by Rembrandt, and whose skeleton is still exhibited in Florence’s Museum of Natural History.

De Passe however was not interested in detailing the features of an elephant from what he had seen. Instead Passe wanted to construct an ideal elephant using the rules of geometry. Using squares and circles he created an ideal animal that conformed to the laws of mathematical proportions and published the results in his book.