立体学(Stereology)是一门既年轻而又古老的方法学科。它起源于二千多年前的天象观察,基本原理是十九世纪法国地质学家Delesse 和英国显微镜学家sorby各自在几何概率论和拓扑学基础上提出的。第一届国际立体学会议(1961)对其命名所下的定义是二维图象的三维解释或二维空间的三维推断。 Stereology is a young and ancient method discipline. It originated from the observation of celestial phenomena more than 2,000 years ago. The basic principle was that the nineteenth-century French geologist Delesse and the British microscopist sorby were each based on geometric probability theory and topology. The definition of the naming of the first International Stereoscopic Conference (1961) is a three-dimensional interpretation of two-dimensional images or three-dimensional inference of two-dimensional space.