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Men and Measures
Edward Nicholson
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目录
MEN AND MEASURES
ERRATA.
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I GENERAL VIEW
5. The Black Cubit (Ninth Century)
Measures of Capacity derived from Arabic Linear Measures
4. The Filiation of the English Foot, of the Rhineland Foot, and of the Marseilles Pan
The League
9. Customs of Lancaster
10. Seed-measures of Land
6. Trade-units of Weight
7. Medicinal Fluid Measures
The Disappearance of the Troy Pound
The Ton Register
3. Wales
Mauritius
4. Decimal Currency
The Compass Card
Compound Industrial Units
2. The Span-Ells
Note of Acknowledgment
SUMMARY
3. Hebrew Weights and Measures of Capacity
4. The Tun and the Fother
Remarks on the French Measures of Capacity
Metric Measures of Time
How far the French have adopted the Metric System.
Envoi
INDEX
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