Hand (unit) inches for the handsbreadth; Mortimer gives the same, three inches for the Hand's-breadth, and four for the "Handful, or simply, Hand", but adds "The hand among horse-dealers, &c. is four-fingers' breadth, being the fist clenched, whereby the height of a horse is measured", thus equating "hand" with both the palm and the fist. Similarly, Wright's 1831 translation of Buffon mentions "A hand breadth (palmus), the breadth of the four fingers of the hand, or three inches", but the "Encyclopædia Perthensis" of 1816 gives under Palm (4): "A hand, or measure of lengths comprising three inches". Today the hand is used
How to Measure a Planet? it brought them a whole new fanbase. "How to Measure a Planet?" remains something of a high point for the Gathering, with tracks from the album making up the majority of their two subsequent live albums, "Superheat (album)" (2000) and "Sleepy Buildings" (2004). In Japan, a one-CD version of the album was released, omitting the nearly half-hour title track. Having already achieved some moderate success with "Mandylion" and "Nighttime Birds", the group felt trapped in an artistically controlled corner, which was very limited due to the high expectations from their fan base. Following the departure of guitarist Jelmer Wiersma, the