Dear Martin,
Thanks for the reference to the Irish measures. This paper is
reminiscent of a similar paper presented to the French government in
about 1792 that described all of the thousands of weights and measures
in France at that time.
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On 2009/08/06, at 6:40 AM, Martin Vlietstra wrote:
I must remind readers that these are ENGLISH measures. The Scots
measures
were different to English measures while Irish measures were a
nightmare
(see http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/ProcCI/2002/PC02/PDF/102C02.pdf
for details).
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf
Of James R. Frysinger
Sent: 05 August 2009 16:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:45511] Neat chart of English mass units
Wow! This is a superb "graph" (I call it a chart) of the units of mass
(commonly called "weight") used in England and the numerical
relationships among them. So far as I can tell it's accurate; it jibes
with the numbers and history that I know. For one, you can see where
that figure of 5760 grains per Troy pound came from!
You will see on here 5 "pounds" listed and they all differ in size. A
similar situation in France is what led them to chuck out the whole
mess
and to devise a "simple decimal system" that we now call the metric
system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_mass_units_graph.svg
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