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  2. History of anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    The history of anthropometry includes its use as an early tool of anthropology, use for identification, use for the purposes of understanding human physical variation in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits.

  3. Anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    A Bertillon record for Francis Galton, from a visit to Bertillon's laboratory in 1893. The history of anthropometry includes and spans various concepts, both scientific and pseudoscientific, such as craniometry, paleoanthropology, biological anthropology, phrenology, physiognomy, forensics, criminology, phylogeography, human origins, and cranio-facial description, as well as correlations ...

  4. Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

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    1742 — Anders Celsius proposed a temperature scale in which 100 represented the temperature of melting ice and 0 represented the boiling point of water at 25 inches and 3 lines of barometric mercury height. [8] This corresponds to 751.16 mm, [9] so that on the present-day definition, this boiling point is 99.67 degrees Celsius. [10]

  5. Torricelli's experiment - Wikipedia

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    Torricelli concluded that the mercury fluid in the tube is aided by the atmospheric pressure that is present on the surface of mercury fluid on the dish. He also stated that the changes of liquid level from day to day are caused by the variation of atmospheric pressure. The empty space in the tube is called the Torricellian vacuum. [3] 760 mmHg ...

  6. Adolphe Quetelet - Wikipedia

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    Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: ⓘ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) [1] was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

  7. Craniometry - Wikipedia

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    A human skull and measurement device from 1902. Craniometry is measurement of the cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium.It is a subset of cephalometry, measurement of the head, which in humans is a subset of anthropometry, measurement of the human body.

  8. Origin of water on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Water has a much lower condensation temperature than other materials that compose the terrestrial planets in the Solar System, such as iron and silicates. The region of the protoplanetary disk closest to the Sun was very hot early in the history of the Solar System, and it is not feasible that oceans of water condensed with the Earth as it formed.

  9. Pressure-temperature-time path - Wikipedia

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    A high pressure-low temperature (HPLT) belt [42] [43] A low pressure-high temperature (LPHT) belt [42] [43] The HPLT metamorphic belt is located along subduction zones, and commonly associated with a clockwise P-T-t path. [42] [44] The HPLT condition is resulted from crustal thickening due to convergence meanwhile without being heated by magma ...