DS413C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Decibel, Public Space, Shapes And Sizes
Document Summary
Man, from around 1492, shows a man within a circle and a square an illustration of the proportional canon of ancient roman architect vitruvius. Leonardo and many other renaissance artists were interested in mathematical and scientific measurement. This work is in the accademia di belle arti in venice, Anthropometrics: introduction: for many hundred years human have realized the importance of knowing something about their own body dimensions. Anthropometry: definitions from human: derived from the two greek word and to anthropo(s), metricos of or pertaining measurement, the ergonomist (a person that studies ergonomics, the. Greek: ergon work; nomos - natural therefore, uses anthropometric data to ensure, quite literally, that the machine or the environment fits the person. laws) Even to the person one least observant thing must be abundantly clear about body dimensions is wide variation between members of a population. there.
