The present essay is mostly comprised of an overview of the historical trajectory of anthropometry as a method and way of thinking, bridging the gap between the 5^th century BC and the 20^th century AD, while making stops along the way to examine noteworthy figures (and time periods) that, in their own way, contributed to the establishment, the evolution and the shaping of both anthropometry and architectural theory in general. For this purpose, allusions and/or citations have been made either to said figures’ body of literary work or commentaries on them, which function as a guide throughout the essay. Then, by collecting elements of the aforementioned process, some observations have been made that pertain to the similarities among all those literary works, despite the time gap that divides them. In this way, the main subject of the essay is approached, which is the degree to which the individual elements that have been discussed actually constitute multiple facets of the same source, as well as the relative importance of this realization (dependent on the general position of architectural theory) for the contemporary designer.