Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
ve smaller headsthan ordinary horses; butI find that the head ofa certain famous racermeasures two feet andtwoinchesinlength, whilethe heightof a flour-barrelis but two feet four inches.There are few thingsso puzzling to estimatecorrectly, at sight, as thesize and form of objectsseen in… … hand and a foot ? Yet a glance at the annexeddiagrams, Figures 6 and 7, will show you that thehand and the foot very often assume the forms whichare outlined, respectively, in the two silhouettes. The extent to which form will influence andpervert our perception of size is well illustrated in the…
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