Body Segment Parameters1

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the foot and the two vertical lines at the finger tips formed the "square of the ancients." This square was adopted by Leonardo da Vinci. He later modified the square by changing the po­ sition of the extremities and scribing a circle around the human figure. Diirer (1470-1528) and Zeising (1810-1876) based their canons on mathematical abstracts

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