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the Palm to the Foot, finds fault with Lucas Foetus, 
as having made a wrong Calculation of this Propor- 
tion in his Book, *De Menfuris & Fonderibus . 
True it is, that the Proportion there given by Foetus, 
does not agree with the Foot upon the Marble, but 
yet it is no falfe Calculation, as Fabretti thought ; 
and had he examined Foetus's Book with Care, he 
would have been fenfible this is not theFoot he there 
contends for, but the Cojjutian Foot which Lucas 
Foetus in his Book difputes againft. The Truth 
therefore is, that he either alter’d his Mind after the 
writing of that Book, before the Marble was fet 
up ; or, more probably, that tho’ he had the Care of 
having thefe Mealures inferibed on the Marble, he 
was direfted by a fuperior Authority what Meafures 
he was to have engraved 5 and that accordingly he 
had, as near as he was able, th Coffulian Foot 
deferibed for the ancient Roman Foot on the 
Stone : And that this was the Cafe, and no Miftake 
about the Number, as Fabretti fuppofes, appears 
not only from the Tenure of his Book, where he 
condemns Cofutius's Foot,which there appears, but 
alfo from his Scheme at the latter End, where he 
has given what he calls Scema pedis legit imi, agree- 
ing with his own Numbers, viz. ix Inches, whereof 
9^ make the Palm of the Architects, and alfo the 
Menfura Colotiani & Statiliani pedis , agreeing 
with that now inferibed on the Marble. TheCWtf- 
tian is the fame Monument as the Coffutian, fo 
called from the Perfon in whofe Poffeflion it had 
formerly been ; and he had before faid, p. 5. that 
according to theTeftimony of Fhilander , the St a - 
t titan 
