Historical dimensions for the cubit are provided by scripture and pyramid documentation. Additional dimensions from the Middle East are found in other early documents. Two major dimensions emerge from a history of the cubit. The first is the anthropological or short cubit, and the second is the a...
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance? . . . ...
inch, unit of British Imperial and United States Customary measure equal to 1/36 of a yard. The unit derives from the Old English ince, or ynce, which in turn came from the Latin unit uncia, which was “one-twelfth” of a Roman foot, or pes. (The Latin word uncia was the source...
(524mmor 20.62 inches) was subdivided in an extraordinarily complicated way. The basic subunit was thedigit, doubtlessly a finger’s breadth, of which there were 28 in the royal cubit. Four digits equaled apalm, five ahand. Twelve digits, or three palms, equaled asmall span. Fourteen ...