VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 332.
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VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 332.

332.

On the central point of the whole body.In kneeling down a man will lose the fourth part of his height.

When a man kneels down with his hands folded on his breast the navel will mark half his height and likewise the points of the elbows.

Half the height of a man who sits--that is from the seat to the top of the head--will be where the arms fold below the breast, and below the shoulders. The seated portion--that is from the seat to the top of the head--will be more than half the man's [whole height] by the length of the scrotum.

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Footnotes

  1. 179:154

    : See Pl. VIII, No. 2.

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