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" ... are likewise deduced from the members of the body, such as the digit, the palm, the foot, and the cubit, all of which are subdivided by the perfect number which the Greeks call Teleios. "
The Natural Principles of Beauty: As Developed in the Human Figure - Page 43
by David Ramsay Hay - 1852 - 48 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 48

1856 - 1432 pages
...foot, and the cubit; all of which are subdivided by the perfect number which the Greeks call Teleios.'" "Nature, in the composition of the human frame, has...hair begins, is a tenth part of the whole stature; tue same proportion obtains in the hand The book is a valuable one to artists and persons interested...
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The London Lancet, Volume 1

Medicine - 1859 - 534 pages
...measure from the extremity of one hand to the extremity of the other when „ne arms are extended ; the face, from the chin to the highest point of the forehead, whence the hair begins, ia a tenth of the whole stature ; so also the hand, from the wrist to the extremity of the middle finger...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1861 - 450 pages
...the measure from the extremity of one hand to the extremity of the other when the arms are extended; the face, from the chin to the highest point of the forehead, whence the hair begins, is a tenth of the whole stature; so also the hand, from the wrist to the extremity of the middle finger; the length...
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Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's ...

George Whitefield Samson - Art - 1867 - 852 pages
...extant of the proportions of the human figure as it was modelled by the Grecian statuary. He says: "Nature in the composition of the human frame has so ordained, that naturally and ordinarily there should be such a proportion, that the face, from the chin to the top...
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Elements of Art Criticism, Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's ...

George Whitefield Samson - 1868 - 440 pages
...where utility holds sway. Vitruvius, presenting the proportions observed in Grecian statuary, says: "Nature in the composition of the human frame has so ordained, that naturally and ordinarily there should be such a proportion that the face, from the chin to the top...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1861 - 448 pages
...the measure from the extremity of one hand to the extremity of the other when the arms are extended; the face, from the chin to the highest point of the forehead, whence the hair begins, is a tenth of the whole stature; so also the hand, from the wrist to the extremity of the middle finger; the length...
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Art Culture: A Hand-book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1873 - 578 pages
...division upwards, proportion. Vitruvius, presenting the proportions observed in Grecian statues, says: "Nature in the composition of the human frame has so ordained that naturally and ordinarily there should be such a proportion that the face, from the chin to the top...
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Art Culture: A Handbook of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected from ...

John Ruskin - 1888 - 576 pages
...division upwards, proportion. Vitruvins, presenting the proportions observed in Grecian statues, says: "Nature in the composition of the human frame has so ordained that naturally and ordinarily there should bo such a proportion that the face, from the chin to the top...
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University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public ...

University of Pennsylvania - 1915 - 622 pages
...the perfect number which the Greeks call Teleios. " Nature in the composition of the human frame has ordained that the face from the chin to the highest point of the forehead where the hair begins is a tenth part of the whole stature. The same proportion obtains in the hand...
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The Technique of Pencil Drawing: With Notes on the Proportions of the Human ...

Figure drawing - 1927 - 184 pages
...account that some of his own measurements are erroneous, and could not be applied to living man — " Nature, in the composition of the human frame, has...ordained that the face from the chin to the highest point 39 TECHNIQUE OF PENCIL DRAWING of the forehead, whence the hair begins, is a tenth part of the whole...
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