On 1/25/2022 6:27 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
Some of the units, particularly for measurement of land area, are still in use as they are effectively codified in the land records. Wikipedia has some summary of the ancient and medieval systems in India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_units_of_measurement
the same in nl ... for instance farmers still use old measures (e.g. when selling or buying land), also because for instance lots are defined that way
But it got more complicated than that (particularly for time). See, for example: https://sites.google.com/site/mathematicsmiscellany/time-measurement-in-ancient-india There is also this fascinating book which covers the non-European history of mathematics (a lot of which in ancient times was to do with units and measurements but more importantly, calculations): https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691135267/the-crest-of-the-peacock
also nice ... all gets figured out independent and multiple times over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIEJHNoSWF4&t=10381s ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
