Before we choose a focus for our study, we decided to research on what is Leonardo work is really about.So below is what we found out from 2 different websites.
1st website:
Leonardo da vinci is known for his study of human body proportions that is related to one another. He believed that one part of the body is equal to another part of a body.
Below are some common examples to illustrate his study:
- The eyes are at the mid-height of the head.
- The head also can be divided into thirds - from the top of the head to the bottom of the forehead, from the bottom of the forehead to the bottom of the nose, and then from there to the bottom of the chin.
- The width of the head is five eyes wide.
- The height of the face is about equal to the length of the hand.
- The eyes are separated by a distance of one eye width.
- The corner of the mouth to the corner of the eye is equal to the height of the ear. The width of the base of the nose is equal to the width of the eye.
- The pubis is at mid-height of the average adult figure.
- The length of the shin is equal to the length of the hip for an average adult figure.
- When the body stands upright, the length of the arm is such that the finger tips come down to mid-thigh.
- The arms' wingspan (measured between the tips of the middle fingers) is about equal to the body height.
- The length of the foot is about equal to the length of the forearm.
Taken from: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Body-proportions
2nd website:
In art, body proportions are the study of relation of human body, or in general, animal body, parts to each other and the whole. These ratios are used in veristic depictions of the figure, and also become part of an aesthetic canon within a culture.Some common proportional relationships for human in European art are:
- The average adult human figure is about 7 to 7.5 heads tall.
- The idealized human figure is traditionally represented as being 8 heads tall: head from the bottom of the head to the middle height of a chest (place where a man's nipples should be) from previous position to the navel from previous position to (upper edge of) the pubis from previous position to the middle height of thigh from previous position to the middle height of a calf from previous position to the point just below the ankles from previous position to the feet
- The pubis, or its upper edge, is at mid-height of the average adult figure.
- The length of the shin is equal to the length of the hip for an average adult figure.
- When the body stands upright, the length of the arm is such that the finger tips come down to mid-thigh.
- The arms' wingspan (measured from the tips of the middle fingers) is about equal to the body height.
- The length of the foot is about equal to the length of the forearm.
- The eyes are at the mid-height of the head.
- The head also can be divided into thirds - from the top of the head to the bottom of the forehead, from the bottom of the forehead to the bottom of the nose, and then from there to the bottom of the chin.
- The width of the head is between four and five eyes wide.
- The nose is the length of the first two notches of the index finger(from tip) when measured from the very beginning of the nose bridge to the tip.
- The height of the face is about equal to the length of the hand.
- The eyes are separated by a distance of one eye width.
- The bottom of the nose to the corner of the eye is equal to the height of the ear.
- The width of the base of the nose is equal to the width of the eye.
- The width of the mouth is equal to the distance between pupils, or the width of two eyes.
At the end of our little research, we are amazed by how one body part is related to another body part. With this information in our hands, we will then now pick our focus of study.
So my group decided to focus on:
Is the length of the forearm is about equal to the length of the feet?
Therefore, our research topic is:
The relationship between the length of forearm and the length of the feet.
The length of the forearm is the same as the length of the feet - demonstrating a golden relationship between the hand and the foot.
On other website that do not specify Leonardo da vinci study regarding human body measurement related to one another, also state that the length of the forearm is equal to the length of the feet.
"Even though it appears to be far longer, the length between your elbow and wrist is exactly the same length as your foot."
Taken from: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=991976
Our rationale for choosing this for our study:
We do not believe that the length of our forearm is about the same to our length of our feet. Not only because we have not heard about the relationship but also we do not see people around us buying shoes by measuring their length of their forearm. So by doing this study, we hope to find out if there is a relationship between our feet and forearm.
So our hypothesis ( Null Hypothesis - H0 ) is:
There is no relationship between the length of the feet and the length of forearm.
Our alternative hypothesis ( H1 ) is:
There is a relationship between the length of the forearm and the length of the feet.