VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 335.
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VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 335.

335.

The relative proportions of the torso and of the leg (335. 336).a b c are equal to each other and to the space from the armpit of the shoulder to the genitals and to the distance from the tip of the fingers of the hand to the joint of the arm, and to the half of the breast; and you must know that c b is the third part of the height of a man from the shoulders to the ground; d e f are equal to each other and equal to the greatest width of the shoulders.

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Footnotes

  1. 180:158

    : See Pl. XVI, No. 1.

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