1528 DÜRER, Albrecht (1471 – 1528)
Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion.
Written, designed, and illustrated by Dürer, this work is notable for its extraordinary series of anthropometrical woodcuts. The first two books deal with the proper proportions of the human form; the third changes th…
GMN 149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2731
1654 ELSHOLTZ, Johann Sigmund (1623 – 1688)
Anthropometria.
Elsholtz was the first physician to study anthropometry and human proportion.
GMN 151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2739
1792 CAMPER, Petrus (Pieter) (1722 – 1789)
Ueber den natürlichen Unterschied der Gesichtszüge in Menschen verschiedener Gegenden und verschiedenen Alters.
This work on physiognomy includes Camper’s description of his craniometrical methods. Camper is chiefly remembered for the “facial angle” of his own invention. The book first appeared in Dutch in 1791. English transla…
GMN 158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3184
1870 QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 – 1874)
Anthropométrie, ou mesure des différentes facultés de l’homme.
In his classification of various populations, Quetelet adopted the plan of determining the standard or typical “mean man” as a basis, using stature, weight, or complexion, etc., as a measure in each particular race or…
GMN 171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3258
1876 TOPINARD, Paul (1830 – 1912)
L’anthropologie.
Topinard was curator of the museum of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. “Topinard’s angle” and “line”, both described in this book, are landmarks employed in anthropometry. English translations 1878 and 1894.
GMN 175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3324
1884 REID, Robert William (1851 – 1939)
Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp.
Reid’s base line – the anthropometric base line on the skull.
GMN 426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1020
1886 BERTILLON, Alphonse (1853 – 1914)
Les signalements anthropométriques.
Bertillon invented a method (“Bertillonage”) of identifying persons by means of selected measurements, the five following measurements being used as the basis of his system: head length, head breadth, length of middle…
GMN 181 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3362
1986 BARSANTI, Giulio
Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.
Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…
GMN 197.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3508
2014 CECCHI, Jacopo Moggi; STANYON, Roscoe
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 5, Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche.
GMN 13210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15473
