| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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