A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . iapafon. I he lengthof a man is all one with his bredth. The bredth of the backe at the armepits; of the hippes at the buttockes,and of the legges at the knees,in refped of the foles of the feete,make a \cfefquitertta;thc like is from the fpace of the head to the breaft-pir: Thediameter of the head at the forhead , to the deapth thereof, (that is be-tweene the eies,and the nappe of the heade)is zfefquioclava: whence ari-feth a Tone. The circumference of the forhead at the temples, is quadrupleto his heighth jor a B
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . iapafon. I he lengthof a man is all one with his bredth. The bredth of the backe at the armepits; of the hippes at the buttockes,and of the legges at the knees,in refped of the foles of the feete,make a \cfefquitertta;thc like is from the fpace of the head to the breaft-pir: Thediameter of the head at the forhead , to the deapth thereof, (that is be-tweene the eies,and the nappe of the heade)is zfefquioclava: whence ari-feth a Tone. The circumference of the forhead at the temples, is quadrupleto his heighth jor a heighth of the facc,& the fpace betweenethe chin and the throat-bone, makes a triple proportion^ a Diapafon And thus if we fhould proceede, we might find in the head all the otherproportions of the fmaleft partes,together with their concords molt exact-ly: which for brevity fake 1 omit, haftningtb the confideration of the mea-fures of all the partes, which are truely fymmetricall,and correfpondent tothe partes of the world, i v/f« 6d
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