Weights and measures - Early works to 1800
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The exact dealer refined being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A Description of the Commodities, Coins, Weights and Measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring Countries. With Useful Directions about Entring and Taking up Goods at the Custom house: Instructions about Bills of Exchange, and the Keeping of Books of Accompts. The way of Recovering Debts; likewise Exact Tables of Accompts ready cast up II. Containing a plain Institution of Arithmetick in all its Parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying Foot-Measure in Feet and Inches, by Feet and Inches, without Reduction and applied to the Measuring of Carpenters Joyners, Painters, Plaisterers, Glasiers, and Bricklayers Work, &c. And of Solid Timber, &c Also the whole Art of Gauging, with several curious Tables. And very necessary Observations relating to the Measuring of Land. III. Containing the Travellers Guide through all the Principal Roads in England. An Account of Carriers Inns, and Days of going out. Also the Rates of Post-Letters. With other Matter not before made publick The fifth edition, enlarged. By J H. author of The secretary's guide.
Hill, John, fl. 1712.Date: [1702]- E-books
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The farmer's , grazier's, and butcher's ready reckoner; a short table, by which the weight of stock, according to the different usages in England, can be ascertained; and the value of stock of any size, with the difference, at once discovered.
Date: 1796- E-books
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Observations on the proposed plan for an universal standard of weights and measures in a letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Member of Parliament. By John Rotheram, M.D.
Rotheram, John, 1751-1804.Date: 1791- E-books
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An inquiry into the state of the ancient measures, the Attick, the Roman, and especially the Jewish : with an appendix concerning our old English money, and measures of content.
Hooper, George, 1640-1727.Date: 1721