Note 45 — A COMMENTARY UPON THE PRECEDING OBJECTS OF INQUIRY: (continued 2)

In a lecture on “Mathematical Beauty,” delivered by Professor Camper in the Academy of Drawing at Amsterdam, this celebrated physiologist has shewn that in tracing the figures of the body of the male and female in two imaginary ellipses of equal dimensions, a portion of the pelvis of the latter would be out of the ellipse, and her shoulders within it; whereas in the former, the shoulders would project beyond the limits of the figure, and his pelvis, on the contrary, would be entirely enclosed within it.