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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.
[
Footnote: See Pl. VIII, No. 2.]
The relative proportions of the torso and of the whole figure.
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33.
The cubit is one fourth of the height of a man and is equal to the
greatest width of the shoulders. From the joint of one shoulder to
the other is two faces and is equal to the distance from the top of
the breast to the navel. [Footnote 9: dalla detta somita. It would
seem more accurate to read here dal detto ombilico.] From this
point to the genitals is a face's length.
[
Footnote: Compare with this the sketches on the other page of the
same leaf. Pl. VIII, No. 2.]
The relative proportions of the head and of the torso.
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