The odyssey of posturology: From empiricism to neurosciences 1 – Posturology from antiquity to now

The concept of the antigravitational erect posture took a long time to take shape. The blame for this lies in the ideological quarrels that slowed down scientific momentum. The latter, once liberated, led to a blossoming of ideas, concepts, and experiments that led us to contemporary posturology, which gives pride of place to neuroscience.