31/08/2022
Eureka!!
There has always been a debate about Jose Rizal's height, with many people insisting, without evidence, that the hero stood at four feet eleven inches. This was even used in the Ayala Museum, since changed at my insistence.
The 4-11 club would not buy my method of measuring Rizal's extant clothing in the National Historical Commission to estimate his height at around five feet two inches.
Well, this evening, without my looking for it the definitive proof for the 5, 2” side cropped up while I was filing my scans of Rizal manuscripts.
In one of his notebooks RIZAL HIMSELF said that at 19 years old and four days old he stood at one meter 61 centimeters. The online converter I first used gave 5.28 feet. After posting, readers pointed out correctly that 161 cms is 5'3"!
Oh,serendipity is one of the thrills of research!!
