 | Mark Amaru Pinkham - Art - 1997 - 406 pages
...each other. The length of the upper arm is in a 5:8 proportion relative to the lower arm and hand, ie, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. The distance from the solar plexus to the top of the head is in a 5:8 proportion relative to the distance... | |
 | Michael Katz, Gershon Schwartz - Religion - 1998 - 388 pages
...length, measuring across a clenched fist, or approximately 31/2 inches. • The amah, or cubit, was the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, or approximately 1 8 inches. • There was a man who used to say: "When our love was strong, we could... | |
 | Herodotus - History - 1998 - 856 pages
...(ie the distance from the elbow to the bottom joint of the middle finger) i '/2 feet = 1 cubit (ie the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; the 'Egyptian' and 'Samian' cubits mentioned in 2.168 are this kind of cubit) 27 fingers = i royal... | |
 | Steve Mills, Hilary Koll - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 72 pages
...1 (= I3), 27 (= 33), 64 (=43), 125 (=53). cubit A cubit is an old unit for measuring length. It is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. cuboid A cuboid is a three-dimensional shape which has six rectangular faces, like a cereal box. It... | |
 | Howard Fawkes - Mechanics, Applied - 1999 - 418 pages
...most advanced engineers and scientists on earth. They introduced the unit of length called the cubit (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger) and used this unit in all their great engineering projects (for example, the pyramids). A calendar... | |
 | William Beckford - Fiction - 2001 - 404 pages
...knew not what to make of such a vision. I looked on in silence for a long time, and at last 1 cubit: the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about 20 inches. 2 welkin: the vault of heaven. 3 orisons: prayers. "Am I still in the land of the... | |
 | Julian Seymour Schwinger - Science - 2002 - 274 pages
...size has varied from one time and place to another. The word derives from the Latin for elbow; it is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about half a meter. The height of the leaning tower of Pisa, nearly 55 meters, is not incompatible... | |
 | Leonardo (da Vinci), Andre Chastel - Art - 2002 - 292 pages
...meanings. The only one that could not be rendered in English was the cubit (called elbow) which is usually the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. buildings : He is referring to the fact that four, six, and twenty-four are common ratios in antique... | |
 | Akel Ismail Kahera - Architecture - 2002 - 220 pages
...explains the cubit (dhirar) as two hand spans (shibran). The conventional measurement of the cubit is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, or approximately 17.4 to 20.64 inches (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 2nd ed., sv "cubit"). It would... | |
 | Lesley Reader, Lucy Ridout - Travel - 2002 - 636 pages
...to measure the distance between the tips of the middle fingers with the arms stretched out sideways, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger and the width of the fist with the thumb stretched out. All these measurements are added together to... | |
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For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). 
