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Comparative Standards of Proportion were based on the idea of using systematic legal definitions of property in antiquity which could be measured weighed and judged according to international standards such as an omer, a minah or a talent.
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Systems in which the relations between elements and a whole are given as proportionate included body measures often used in the manufacture of uniform sizes and shapes of containers expected to contain a given volume, as for example a pint, board measure used to produce dimensioned lumber in a given number of board feet, and bulk measure so many bushels of grain; agricultural measures were used to define areas, and architectural measures to define modulors of building components.
“ | Proportion is a correspondence among the measures of the members of an entire work, and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard. From this result the principles of symmetry. Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members as in the case of those of a well shaped man. —Vitruvius,[1] The Ten Books of Architecture (III, Ch. 1) | ” |