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1-eighth 1-fourth Abrégé accounts Africa America ARITHMETIC Asia Atlantic Avoirdupois weight bajocchi barrel bushels calculations called Caspian Sea Catholics Caucasian cent chains coin coinage copper decimal system denari denominator Dictionary ditto divided Division dollar dozen drams DRY MEASURE Ducat earth Edition Empire of Japan English equal Europe fanams farthings Fcap feet figures Flemish florin florin or guilder fraction France gallons gold grains grani guilder Gulf HINDOSTAN inches India Island Italy Kingdom kreutzers land LINEAL MEASURE mace maps maravedis mils mountains Naples Nines North number of farthings Ocean ounce peck pence PENCE TABLE pezza pfenings piastre pints pole POPULATION post 8vo pound principal quarters reckoned River rixdollar ROUTLEDGE rupee Russia score scudi scudo sheet shillings silver soldi South Spain Spanish dollar square links square miles square yard stone Subtraction Sweden tael tari Troy weight United waters WEIGHTS AND MEASURES zenith
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Σελίδα 33 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day...
Σελίδα 27 - All MEASURES OF CAPACITY were first taken from Troy Weight, and several laws were passed in the reign of Henry III., enacting that 81bs. Troy of wheat, taken from the middle of the ear, and well dried, should make one gallon of Wine measure, and 8 such gallons make a bushel.
Σελίδα 26 - It was subsequently thought better to divide the pennyweight into 24 equal parts, called grains. William the Conqueror introduced into England what was called Troy Weight...
Σελίδα 26 - ... breadth), a palm (3 inches), a hand (4 inches), a span (9 inches), a foot (12 inches), and a cubit (18 inches), being the length of the arm or bone, from the elbow to the wrist. A pace (5 feet), or 2 ordinary steps ; a fathom (6 feet) from the extremity of one hand to that of the other, the arms oppositely extended. It is stated that Henry I., in 1101, commanded that the Ulna or ancient ell, which answers to the modern yard, should be made the length of his arm ; and that the other measures of...
Σελίδα 33 - ... minutes. A Solar Month is the time the sun takes in passing through the different SIGNS of the ZODIAC. The Zodiac is that circle in the heavens in which the sun appears to move; it is divided into Twelve SIGNS, namely : Northern Constellations.
Σελίδα 26 - I., and 12 Henry VII., which enacted, that 32 of them, well dried, and gathered from the middle of the ear, were to make 1 pennyweight, 20 dwts.
Σελίδα 26 - Avoir da poids, •which was a medium between the French and the ancient English weights. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT was first made legal in the reign of Henry VII, and its particular use was to weigh provisions and coarse heavy articles. Henry fixed the stone at 14 Ibs...