What is oblique seven feet, and if it is shoulders?

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Since time immemorial to characterize heroes or just a big man, said: “broad shoulders.”. What is it – seven feet? If accurate, this definition of the width of the chest or artistic hyperbole? Let's face it. After all, familiar to us from the meter, the centimeter (and at the same time kilogram, and liter) as measures have been taken recently.

Kosaya sazhen

Already in ancient times people felt the need to measure the lengths. It is required to calculate distances, for the construction of buildings, for measuring the amount of goods (e.g., fabrics). So people searched for some kind of universal measure of value. The basis is, as a rule, were taken the parameters of certain parts of the body of an adult male. So in Kievan Rus was born fathom - a measure of length equal to the distance of the two scattered in opposite directions of hand. The origin of this term is connected with the old Church "to Seagate”. In the Ukrainian language still is the concept of “datagate”, “sagnotti" (reach, attain). In the Russian language this term is preserved in the word "oath” because, when men swore, they stretched out right hand up.

Fathom measure of length

Of Course, people are different, and therefore span all different. Fathom in Kievan Rus ranged from 42 meters and centimeters to meters and 52 centimeters. Along with this measure of length was to walk an inch, yard, inch, cubit. With the elbow it is clear – the magnitude of the ulna, but what is the span? This is the maximum distance between the spaced apart thumb and forefinger. Value is also relative-after all, a professional pianist's span much more than usual. And yet, and fathoms were different: centrifugal, Greek, customs and the already mentioned oblique seven feet.

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Anecdotally, the British standard measure of length was… of their kings. So, the official ft – the size of the feet of John Lackland, and the yard-the distance from the last phalanx of the middle finger outstretched right hand to the tip of the nose of Henry I. As a standard were taken the parameters of a person in the British Isles was not such a discordance of action, as in the Slavic lands. Therefore, in the XVI century was adopted breech fathom – 2 meters of 13.36 cm, But in our country gradually unified. Russia with access to the seas and development of navigation the English had borrowed fathom. The rope to which was tied the load to measure the depth, measured by coverage of two hands. It actually is a simple fathoms. But since 1958 in the shipping industry adopted a single standard of that measure of length equal to 1,8288.

fathom

We can only find out what Kosaya sazhen. To measure her adult male growth raised up his right hand with outstretched fingers. The distance from the end of the middle finger to heel oblique and equal to fathom. Even taking into account that the growth of men in ancient times were smaller than the height of modern man (about 165 cm), this measure of length is still equal to two meters and 48 centimeters. It is clear that shoulders of such width just does not happen in nature.

The yard, pound, elbow and oblique seven feet out of use in 1917 when the Provisional government took the continental metric system. Platinum meter is kept in London as a universal standard of length, although the British and the Americans still measure the height and the distance in yards and feet.


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