Geometrie Practique By Charles de Bouelles

Geometrie Practique By Charles de Bouelles.

You can pick up a copy on Ebay for the great price of $2850.00 or you can buy one at Abebooks,com for 9 thousand or 21 thousand. evidently a very rare book.

Published in 1555 and considered a landmark in the knowledge of geometry. What is relevant to this site is it has a section on human proportions.

De la Grandeur & stature de tous corps humains.

Height and the stature of all humans.


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Wikipedia article: Charles de Bouelles

Livre singularis touchant l'art et pratique de Geometrie By Charles de Bouelles

Another webpage: dutarte.club.fr

You might also be interested in a more complete book about human proportions from the 1800s The Sculptor and Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form.

Also available at Amazon.com: The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form

Geometrie Practique - The Height & Stature of the Human Body.

De La Grandeur & stature de tous corps humain.

GEOMETRIE PRACTIQVE, COMPOSEE
par le noble Philosophe maistre Charles
de Bouelles, & nouvellement par
luy reueue, augmentée, & grandement enrichie.

A PARIS,

Chez Gilles Gourbin, á l´enseigne de l´Esperance,
pres le collage de Cambray. 1555.

First work on geometry in France included this woodblock print of the proportions of a human body.

You can search for a copy yourself at Abebooks.com.
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Geometrie practique. revue, augmentée & grandement enrichie.
BOUELLES Charles de.

Other posts on the proportions of the human body - search the posts for others:

Figure Drawing: The Proportions of the Members in a Human Body

Figure Drawing: Les proportions du corps humain, measurées sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquité

Figure Drawing: The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form

Figure Drawing: Human Anatomy for Artists and Drawing Proportions of the Human Body

Figure Drawing: The Sculptor and Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form - Now available as a printed book