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TYPOGRAPHY — Last page of the Aldine incunabulum of Niccolo Perotti’s Cornacapiae seu linguae latinae commentarii (1499), with the guide register for the binding of the quires and the colophon — Copy from the Vatican Library,
but acquires all the less somatic mass, and inversely + (law of morphological-weight antagonism).
N. Pende subsequently introduced new modifications and improvements to the anthropometric method, replacing the statistical norms then in force with particular statistical norms for each racial group. Pende is also credited with having simplified the anthropometric study of individuals by measuring the relationships between three simple measurements: height, average thoracic perimeter, and weight. The height-weight ratio is an index of the relative weight of the body, making it possible to divide individuals into hypersonic, hyposomic, and normosomic types; while the height–average thoracic perimeter ratio gives the value of the development of body mass, yielding normosomic, brevilinear, and longilinear individuals.
The simple typological and constitutional study of individuals has, however, undergone continual refinement and completion in recent times, so that typology has now been replaced by «biotypology» (v.), that is, by the complete study of the individual from the somatic, functional or endocrine, and neuropsychic points of view.