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The earliest known use of the noun sitting height is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for sitting height is from 1665, in the writing of John Webb, architect. sitting height is formed within English, by compounding.
18 Απρ 2017 · Our data shows that average heights in England in the medieval era and between 1400 and 1700 were similar to those of the 20th century. If mean heights are a good measure of well-being, it seems we are now in previously uncharted territory.
Sophisticated quantitative analysis enables the authors to present some striking conclusions about the actual physical status of the British people during a period of profound social and economic upheaval, and Height, Health and History will provide an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.
Average height is an important indicator of people’s well-being. It is also a relatively undistorted and easy-to-measure indicator, which makes it particularly suitable for comparisons across time and space. Drawing upon an extensive body of research, the chapter describes the strengths and weaknesses of this indicator.
3 ημέρες πριν · The Early Modern period marks a transition to the 20th century, during which there is a consistent increase in average height, most pronounced until the 1980s, after which the rate of increase slows slightly into the early 21st century. Temporal height variability in the European part of Russia shows regional differences. Conclusions
Richard Francis Burton, Francis Lindley Burton, When is sitting height a better measure of adult body size than total height, and why? The contrasting examples of body mass, waist circumference, and lung volume, American Journal of Human Biology, 10.1002/ajhb.23433, 0 , 0, (2020).
This review article examines the meanings and materialities of human stature, from serving as a marker of human differ-ence to shaping the socio-spatial experiences of individu-als. I introduce existing perspectives on height from various disciplines, including biomedical discourses on the factors
