A skeleton in motion. Lithograph, 18--.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1836]

1 print : etching ; image 7.8 x 10.8 cm

Sander L. Gilman, Stand up straight! A history of posture, London: Reaktion Books, 2018, pp. 83-85

Wellcome Collection 570877i

Figures apparently devised by Wilhelm Weber and Eduard Weber and published in their book Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge: eine anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchung, Göttingen: In der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1836; here without the letters and numbers keyed to their text on p. 46, para. 2 (describing a man whose step is 600 mm long, i.e relatively short). The authors claim that their illustrations, made from measurements of fifteen soldiers, show that the pelvis is strongly tilted not only among women but among men, and that therefore the "best illustrations of the human skeleton are erroneous in this respect" (p. ix)

After (or proof for): Wilhelm Weber and Eduard Weber, Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge: eine anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchung, Göttingen 1836, Taf. XV, fig. 13