Metrology; Or, an Exposition of Weights and Measures, Chiefly Those of Great Britain and France: Comprising Tables of Comparison, and Views of Various Standards: With an Account of Laws and Local Customs, Parliamentary Reports, & Other Important Documents
Metrology; Or, an Exposition of Weights and Measures, Chiefly Those of Great Britain and France: Comprising Tables of Comparison, and Views of Various Standards: With an Account of Laws and Local Customs, Parliamentary Reports, & Other Important Documents
Excerpt from Metrology; Or, an Exposition of Weights and Measures, Chiefly Those of Great Britain and France: Comprising Tables of Comparison, and Views of Various Standards; With an Account of Laws and Local Customs, Parliamentary Reports,& Other Important Documents Some doubt however, may be entertained of this regularity of the ancients, 'particu1arly if an account of their laws only, has furnished modern historians with information on the subject. From perusing the laws relating to English Weights and Measures, it ...
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Excerpt from Metrology; Or, an Exposition of Weights and Measures, Chiefly Those of Great Britain and France: Comprising Tables of Comparison, and Views of Various Standards; With an Account of Laws and Local Customs, Parliamentary Reports,& Other Important Documents Some doubt however, may be entertained of this regularity of the ancients, 'particu1arly if an account of their laws only, has furnished modern historians with information on the subject. From perusing the laws relating to English Weights and Measures, it might be inferred that great regularity prevailed, which must be the case if those enactments had been duly obeyed. But the state of Scotland is still more extraordinary where every law 'on the' subject enjoined one weight and one mea sure down to the union, and by an article of that treaty it was agreed, that the English. System should be adopted; but perhaps no nation in the world exhibits such a variety of weights and measures: and yet it is to be observed, that the inconvenience does not seem at all to interrupt the peace or prosperity of that country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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