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below the shoulder-blade is one foot.
The greatest thickness of a man from the breast to the spine is one
8th of his height and is equal to the space between the bottom of
the chin and the top of the head.
The greatest width is at the shoulders and goes 4.
The torso from the front and back.
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The width of a man under the arms is the same as at the hips.
A man's width across the hips is equal to the distance from the top
of the hip to the bottom of the buttock, when a man stands equally
balanced on both feet; and there is the same distance from the top
of the hip to the armpit. The waist, or narrower part above the hips
will be half way between the arm pits and the bottom of the buttock.
[Footnote: The lower sketch Pl. XVI, No. 2, is drawn by the side of
line 1.]
Vitruvius' scheme of proportions.
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