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Men and Measures

by Edward Nicholson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — General View
  3. 3Chapter II — The Story of the Cubits
  4. 4Chapter III — The Story of the Talents
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Involution of Linear Measures From Weights
  6. 6Chapter V — English Linear Measures
  7. 7Chapter VI — Land-Measures
  8. 8Chapter VII — English Commercial Weights
  9. 9Chapter VIII — English Measures of Capacity
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Mint-Pounds
  11. 11Chapter X — The Cubic Foot and the Ton Register
  12. 12Chapter XI — Scots, Irish, and Welsh Measures and Weights
  13. 13Chapter XII — Measures and Weights of Some British Dominions
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Measures of Value
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Measures of Time
  16. 16Chapter XV — Measures of Heat and of Density and Compound Industria…
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Ells
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Foreign Linear Measures
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Foreign Weights
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Foreign Measures of Capacity
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Development of Meaning in the Names of Weights and…
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Old Measures and Weights of France
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Metric System
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — How the Metric System Works in France
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Conflict of the Imperial and Metric Systems

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