A Compendium Of Picturesque Anatomy

Author : John Rubens Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331179323
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book A Compendium of Picturesque Anatomy written by John Rubens Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Compendium of Picturesque Anatomy: Adapted to the Arts of Designing, Painting, Sculpture and Engraving on Four Folio Lithographic Plates, in Which Are Combined the Osteology and Myology of the Human Figure In each half diameter you see two other circles which thus quarter the total height according to the first grand line Of measurement, the upper quarter or diameter being through the base or broadest part of the breast, or, more properly, half way down the sternum or breast bone, as also through the arm-pits in front and profile figure, and near the ends of the shoulder blades in back View. The Iower diameter through the knees, or junction of the leg and thigh bones, are alike in each. The next line of measurement for correcting in detail, consists of a scale of heads and faces; it being allowed by all painters and sculptors that a figure should be seven heads and half, or ten faces. A head is divided into four parts; three are given to a face, of which a nose is one third, and being one determinate and prominent feature is generally used as a rule for proportioning all details by the expression of so many noses, instead of so many thirds of a face. The inner or thin line On the left Of same figure, is divided into ten faces, then subdivided into noses, every three constituting a face, marked F 1, F 2, &c.; and every fourth nose is carried out to the first grand line to denote heads, marked H I, H II, Also on the right of the front figure is given the measurements of faces as applied to the thigh and leg; by which you see that commencing from the grand centre line through OS pubis, you give two faces to the thigh bone and half a face to the knee, two faces to the leg or shin bone and half a face from ancle or instep to the flat or tread of the heel or foot., Again, on the left side of the back veiw is subjoined the measurement of noses, beginning from the bottom the dotted line for the ancle being half a face, or a nose and half, the same for the knee; and the fifteenth nose, or fifth face, finishes at the projection of the great trochanter or outer protuberance of the thigh-bone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.