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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING.

Book IT.

Table of various Weiyhts.

Ancient Weights.

Pounds.

Eng . gr*.

Eng . grs.

Dresden

7210*

Attic obolus

8-2

Dublin

7774-

1

9‘1

Florence

5287*

drachma -

51 *9

ounce =-['3 pound

440-6

1

54*6

France, see Paris .

lesser mina

-

3892*

Geneva

_

8407*

greater mina

-

■{

5189*

5464-

Genoa = 12 ounces

f 4426*

6638 ■

medical mina

-

6994*

rotolo = 18 ounces.

talent = 60 mina =

3 CWt.

rubo = 25 pounds.

old Greek drachm

.{

146-5

cantaro = 6 rubi.

1

62*5

peso = 5 cantari.

old Greek mina

-

-

6425*

Germany apothecaries -

5523-

Egyptian mina -

-

-

8326-

Hamburg

7315*

Ptolemaic mina of Cleopatra

-

8958*

Ireland, see Dublin .

Alexandrian mina of Dioscorides

9992-

Konisberg

5968*

Roman denarius = g 02 .

-

-

51-9

Leghorn

5146*

= } oz.

-

-

62-5

Leyden

-

7038*

ounce

-

-

415*1

Liege-

7089*

= avoirdupois oz.

437*2

Lille -

6544*

pound of 10 oz.

-

-

4151*

Lisbon

.

7005*

pound of 12 oz.

-

' 4981-5246*

London avoirdupois -troy -

7000*

5760-

Lucca

5273*

Modern Weights.

Lyon silk

6946*

Pounds.

Eng . grs.

town weight

6432*

Aleppo rotolo

-

30985*

Madrid

6544*

Alexandria

-

6159*

Marseilles

6041*

Alicant -

-

-

6909*

Meiun

4441*

Amsterdam

-

-

7461*

Messina

4844*

Amsterdam commercial

-

7636*

Montpellier -

6218*

stone 16 pounds.

Namur

7174-

ounce -j^g pound.

Nancy

7038*

drop T V ounce.

Naples = 12 oncie

4952*

Antwerp

-

-

7048-

rotolo = 33^ 0 .

Avignon

-

-

6217*

staro = 10 ^r.

Basel

-

7713*

cantaro = 100 r.

Bayonne

-

7461*

oncia = S 0 trapezi.

Bergamo

-

-1

‘ 4664*11660-

trapeso = 20 mini.Nuremberg

7871*

Bergen -

-

-

7833*

Paris (1-08 lb.)

_

7561*

Berlin -

-

7232*

marc = | pound.

Bern

-

6722*

ounce = | marc.

Bilboa, see Bayonne.Rois le Due

_

7105*

gron = | ounce,denier = \ gros.

Bordeaux , see Bayonne.

Eng . grs.

Bourg -

-

-

7074*

grain = ^ denier -

-

•8203

Brabant -

-

7249*

milligramme

-

*0154

Brescia -

-

-

4497*

centigramme

-

•1543

Brussels heavy pound

-

7602*

decigramme

1*5433

light pound

-

-

7201*

gramme

-

15*4330

Cadiz

-

.

7038*

decagramme

-

154-3300

China kin

J

* 9223*

hecatograrnme

-

1543-3000

'

-

5802*

kilogramme, 2 lb. 3£ oz.

leang ^ kin.

avoirdupois

-

15433-0000

tsien -fo leang.Cologne-

' 7220*

myriogramme - 154330 *0000

quintal = 10 myriogrammes.

7218*

millier = 1000 chiliograrmnes

Constantinople -

-

-

7578*

= I ton.

Copenhagen

-

-

6941*

sous, 5 grammes ot copper.

Cracau commercial

-

-

6252*

franc. 5 grammes of silver with

mint mark

-

-

3071*

•jlj of copper.

Damascus

-

-

25613-

Prague commercial pound

-

7947*

Dantzig -

-

-

6574*

Revel -

-

6574-