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COMPARATIVE SIZE OF NOAH'S ARK AND THE
GREAT EASTERN.
The following comparison between the size of Noah's ark
and the Great Eastern, both being
considered in point of tonnage, after
the old law for calculating the tonnage
of a vessel, exhibits a remarkable
similarity. The cubit
of the Bible, according to Sir Isaac
Newton, is 20-1/2 inches, or, to be
exact, 20.625 inches. Bishop Wilkins
makes the cubit 20.88 inches. According
to Newton the dimensions of the ark
were: Length between perpendiculars,
515.62 feet; breadth, 84.94 feet; depth,
51.56 feet; keel, or length for tonnage,
464.08 feet. Tonnage, according to old
law, 18,231 58-94. |
