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Epiphanius of Salamis, in his treatise On Weights and Measures, describes how it was customary, in his day, to take the measurement of the biblical cubit: "The cubit is a measure, but it is taken from the measure of the forearm. For the part from the elbow to the wrist and the palm of the hand is called the cubit, the middle finger of the cubit ...
The cubital fossa, antecubital fossa, chelidon, or inside of elbow is the area on the anterior side of the upper part between the arm and forearm of a human or other hominid animals. It lies anteriorly to the elbow (antecubital) (Latin cubitus ) when in standard anatomical position .
The common cubit was the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was divided into the span of the hand or the length between the tip of little finger to the tip of the thumb (one-half cubit), the palm or width of the hand (one sixth), and the digit or width of the middle finger (one twenty-fourth).
Crest: A cubit arm couped fessways vested Gules cuffed Argent the hand Proper grasping a sword erect also Argent pommel and hilt Or. Escutcheon: Ermine on a pale Gules between four cross crosslets of the second a like cross Or. Supporters: Dexter a griffin Or wings per fess Or and Sable, sinister a lion Azure charged on the shoulder with a ...
Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln). Prussian ell. An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinÅ, cognate with Latin ulna) [1] is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand).
Crest: A dexter cubit arm in armour the hand in a gauntlet grasping a broken sword in bend sinister Proper pomel and hilt Or. [11] Sir Lislebone Long, Speaker of the House 1659 Escutcheon: Sable semée of crosses crosslet a lion rampant Argent. Thomas Bampfield, Speaker of the House 1659 Escutcheon: Or on a bend Gules three mullets Argent.
This was the origin of the "pyramid inch". Taylor regarded the "pyramid inch" to be 1/25 of the "sacred cubit", ancient unit based on the forearm length from the tip of the middle finger to the bottom of the elbow, whose existence had earlier been postulated by Isaac Newton. [4]
Crest: An arm embowed in armour Argent holding in the gauntlet Or a battle-axe in fess also Argent the forearm environed of a wreath of laurel Vert. Supporters: Dexter a lion Gules gorged of a collar Or charged with a chevronel engrailed Gules, sinister a buck Proper attired collared and chained Or the collar charged with a chevronel engrailed ...