Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	foot_n	part_n	5,540	5	4.6773	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07574	Mesolabium architectonicum that is, a most rare, and singular instrument, for the easie, speedy, and most certaine measuring of plaines and solids by the foote: necessary to be knowne of all men whatsoeuer, who would not in this case be notably defrauded: inuented long since by Mr. Thomas Bedwell Esquire: and now published, and the vse thereof declared by Wilhelm Bedwell, his nephew, Vicar of Tottenham.	Bedwell, William, ca. 1561-1632.	1631 (1631)	STC 1796; ESTC S101421	11,621	33

MESOLABIVM ARCHITECTONICVM THAT IS A most rare and singular Instrument for the easie speedy and most certaine measuring of Plaines and Solids by the foote Necessary to be knowne of all men whatsoeuer who would not in this case be notably defrauded Inuented long since by M r. Thomas Bedwell Esquire And now published and the Vse thereof declared by Wilhelm Bedwell his nephew Vicar of Tottenham LONDON Printed by J. N. for VVilliam Garet 1631 TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS Right-honourable Right-worshipfull and dearely beloued the Nobility Gentry and Commons of Great Britaine and Ireland GOd sayth the wise man hath ordered all things by measure number and weight And man the image of God ought as the Philosophers teach to order all his life according to the same directions And yet who knowth not 〈◊〉 little they are of all men regarded To passe by the generall and to come to that which concerneth our commerce What smatterer in the Mathematicks is hee who knoweth not what neglect or ignorance there is euen in those artists whom all men the Rich aswell as the Poore do and must daily trust in matters of measuring I accuse no man of wilfull fraude or malice But this I say There is no man whatsoeuer that is not some peece of a scholler that can measure 〈◊〉 truely And those who are most 〈◊〉 in both cannot do it either speedily or readily All which Illustrious Righthonourable Right-worshipfull and Dearely beloued I promise in this short treatise by the ordinary Instrument in this 〈◊〉 vsed to teach the meanest of vnderstanding though wholy vnlearned to do with that speede facillity and certainety that may not be bettered This as a prodromus begun and ended in the middest of many and great troubles I thought good to premise and send out before a larger discourse of the Fabricke and more ample Vse therof which God willing shall follow so soone as Figures and Diagrammes may conueniently be cut for that purpose with all possible speed In the meane time the Author wholy deuoted to his Countries seruice resteth Your H. H. H. in all obseruancy Wilhelm Bedwell MESOLABIVM ARCHITECTONICVM CHAP. 1. Of the Mesolabe And of the vse of it in generall 1 To measure by this Rule is by two knowne lines to finde out the third vnknowne THe Instrument whose vse at this time wee intend to 〈◊〉 is no other in respect of matter and forme in generall but the Carpentars rule by them vsed in the measuring of Tymber and Bourd by the Foot square For it is a flat Ruler or oblong parallelogram of two foote or a foot halfe long Two inches and an halfe or there abouts broad And of such convenient thicknesse as shall at cuery mans discresion be thought most fit Againe as theirs so this on the one side contayneth a Scale of equall diuisions First of 〈◊〉 Halfe-ynches Quarters Halfe quarters and so forth Then againe on the 〈◊〉 side you hauean Ynche diuided into Seauen Eleuen Thirteene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Three and twenty and such other 〈◊〉 parts as 〈◊〉 man for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall think 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 hand shall be able to performe More ouer on the other side as on theirs also you haue a Scale of vnequall diuisions seruing for the measuring of Board and Tymber But after a farre different manner For their diuisions are only markes or small strokes in one of the limbs of that side determinyng from the Fore-end of the Rular in ynches and partes of ynches the Square measure of solids or Tymber Wheras this of ours consisteth of two for●es of straight lines the one Beuelling o● sla●ting drawne as ●●e from side to side The other parallell that is equidistant one from another running along the Ru●ar from the one end toward the other And therefore cutting those former and diuiding them into vnequall portions whereby not onely their sayd Quadrate or square measure is performed But also all other whatsoeuer and that with great facillity speede and certainety Lastly here as also there you must make a distinction betweene end and end For that end we call the For-end of the Rular from whence the diuisions of it into ynches on both sides are begun to be reckoned And that the Backer-end where they doe end and determine Or contrarywise the For-end is that from whence the numbers asscribed to the Beuelling linnes are lesse and lesse But the distances betweene them are greater and greater Thus much of the Ruler and the Partes therof Mensura innuit Aristoteles in quolibet mensurabili genere est quippiam minimum A measure as Aristotle seemeth to intimate is some small portion in euery thing that is to be measured And it is commonly termed of the Geometricians Famosa mensura Aknowne or set measure generally agreed vpon amongst all men As in measuring by hand-breadths feete and passes one hand breadth on foot one passe And in deed it is an old saying of Protagoras as Aristotle recordeth That man is the measure of all things And true it is That Vi●●●●us and Hero the mechanicke or inginer do shew That generally all measures are taken from the partes of Mans body as a Finger an Ynch Pollex an Hand or Hands breadth a Spanne a Foot a Cubite a Passe an Elne a 〈◊〉 But who knoweth not What great difference there is between man man And not only between men of diuerse Countreys and climats But eu'n between those of one and the same prouince Nay of one and the same family children of the same parents And the limmes of men being proportionall to their bodys what 〈◊〉 must there needs bee betweene the measures taken from them And in deed heerupon it came to passe That the Measures not only of diuerse Nations But eu'n of one and the same are and alwayes haue beene much different as doth manifestly appeare by the diligent comparisons made of them by diuerse and sundry learned men and especially by that hopefull Willebrordus Snellius as wee 〈◊〉 Godwilling shortly teach in Ramus's Geometry which wee purpose to set out in English for the benesite of such of our Countrey men as delight in these study's yet are ignorant of those languages where in they are written This difference was in this our kingdome complained of in all ages For from hence arose many greeuous 〈◊〉 and suites in the Law which our worthy Kings and state in their Parlaments in all ages haue laboured to appease by reducing all to an vniformity For thus wee finde in our Statutes It is ordeined That 3 grains of Barley dry and round do make an Ynche Twelue ynohes do make a Foot Three foote do make a Yard Fiue yards and halfe do make a 〈◊〉 And 40 〈◊〉 in length and 4 in Breadth do make an Aker 33 of Edward the first De 〈◊〉 mensurandis Item De Compositione 〈◊〉 et Perticarum Againe in a 〈◊〉 held in the 25 〈◊〉 of Queene Elizabeth you haue an Act thus intituled An Act for the restrainte of New-buildings