Sculptor's foot

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The sculptor's foot was a measure of length in Brescia in Lombardy . It existed alongside the ordinary foot, denoted pied, and the hour foot.

  • 1 sculptor's foot = 130 5/6 Parisian lines = 0.294668 meters
  • 1 hour foot = 146 3/5 Paris lines = 0.330705 meters
  • 1 pied = 12 dita / inch = 210.773 Parisian lines = 0.47547 meters

literature

  • Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight. Georg Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1858, p. 92.
  • Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 55.