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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate This is the best book on the history of weights and measures that I have ever read. British weights and measures are important because they (and their American and Commonwealth cousins) are about the only non-metric units still in widespread use, including the American / British / International troy ounce. This book is extraordinarily well-researched, well-written, and a pleasure to read. Related booksContents
5 other sections not shown Common terms and phrases100 in number 112 avoirdupois pounds 2,240 avoirdupois pounds 24 yards 45 inches alnager Anglo-Saxon assize Austria avoirdupois pound 453.592 avoirdupois pounds 50.802 Baden bailiffs barrel weight unspecified breadth Bremen Britain Britannicarum Medii Aevi British Bulk Rated bushel Calendar capacity measures century clerk cloth commissioners County Description of Merchandise documents dozen avoirdupois pound duties Edward Edward III ell of 45 enactment England English Metric Measure Exchequer gallons gross Hanover Henry III hundred of 100 hundredweight of 112 Imports continued John justices king king's length Location Equivalent Equivalent London manorial mayors Measure Location Equivalent medieval Medii Aevi Scriptores merchants Metric Measure Location metrological officials ounce Parliament Patent Rolls physical standards piece of 24 quarters reign Rerum Britannicarum Medii Richard Roman Rotuli parliamentorum Russia Saxony sq ft statute statutory thousand of 1,000 tower pound troy pound Troy Weights units weights and measures wine Bibliographic information
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