Where to find average man/woman drawings as proposed by Adolphe Quetelet? Drawings along the years would be very nice. He proposed the idea of average man in 1835 (see https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2154). To see how the "average man evolved from 1835 would be nice!
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@Mauricio, i've included the requested ingo. – Humberto José Bortolossi Aug 28 '23 at 23:15
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1Could you be more specific at to where Quetelet proposed such drawings? I assume the question is related to the following book: Adolphe Quetelet, Sur l'homme et le développement des ses facultés, Vol. 2. Paris: Bachelier 1835. (scan) in particular chapter 1 of book 4 on pp. 250-293 where he discusses at some length propriétés de l'homme moyen (properties of the average man). – njuffa Aug 28 '23 at 23:39
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at Cleveland Museum there are two statues based in the quetelet idea: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/cambers.php – Humberto José Bortolossi Aug 29 '23 at 15:57
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Not drawings but statues at Cleveland Museum: The final measure is the mean of 3,863 measurements of American citizens: curious? take a look at: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/cambers.php
Beyond the Average Man: The Art of Unlikelihood Roger Koenker University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign FEMES/Taipei: July, 2007 http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/research/AvMan/femes.pdf
it seems there are no drawings in the original Quetelet book. howevwe in its
I've found this in Anthropométrie ou mesure des différentes facultés de l'homme(https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1513441w.image)
this book Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796–1874 by Kevin Donnelly,displays this picture:
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