Ioannis Sigismvndi Elsholtii Anthropometria
Anthropometria by Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, printed in 1654 and held by Heidelberg University Library, is a learned treatise on human proportion and physiognomy aimed at scholars and physicians. Its woodcut plates show a hand and a foot marked with planetary signs, a profile head lettered with measuring points, and a decorative initial, with a designer able to draw on the diagram-like layout of labelled body parts and the clean ruled borders around each figure.
