abstract: We study Lagrange spectra arising from intrinsic Diophantine approximation of copies of a circle and a sphere. More precisely, we consider three copies of a unit circle embedded in $\mathbb{R}2$ or $\mathbb{R}3$ and three copies of a unit sphere embedded in $\mathbb{R}3$ or $\mathbb{R}4$. We present a unified framework to connect the Lagrange spectra of these six spaces with the spectra of $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{C}$. Combining this with prior work of Asmus L.~Schmidt on the spectra of $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{C}$, we can characterize, for each of the six spectra, the smallest accumulation point and the initial discrete part leading up to it completely. This is joint work with Byungchul Cha.