The early weights and measures of mankind / by General Sir Charles Warren.

  • Charles Warren
Date:
1913
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    Moslems (from circa a.d. 650). 1 here have been three great breaks with the past: (o) The Gudean, or old metre, system (already dealt with). (b) The Black Cubit system. (c) The French Metre system. (N.B.—The loss of 1 per cent, in weight of the Troy grain appears also to affect many Moslem weights). The Black Cubit System.—The Moslems are said to have originated no new measures, but they certainly brought the Black cubit (Persian 21 ‘36 inches) into prominence, and gave it a new bias. They raised many old weights in the proportion of 9 '• 10, and, whilst using the new weights, still continued the old ones in various countries. [9 10] Moslem Innovation. The Babylonian cubic foot 2,592 0.1. The Black cubit (21-3 inch) cubed 2,SS0 C.I. The Babylonian cubic foot Attic pound Attic drachma The old hon of 16 ounces Roman pound of 12 ,, The old ounce The siliqua The revised hon 64S.000 O.G.T. 6,4S0 04-S „ 6,912 „ 5,184 „ 432 „ 43-2 „ 6,750 ,, The Black cubit (21 ‘3 inch) cubed The Moslem Rotl The Miscal The Scotch Troyes (16 oz. Troy, or Dutch Weight) The Troy pound The Troy ounce The Moslem Dirhem (Keil) The Gudean pound 720,000 O.G.T. 7,200 „ 72 „ 7,680 „ 5,760 „ 480 „ 4S „ 7,500 „ The following weights were dubbed Moslem : The Attic Drachma or Dinar ... 64-8 O.G.T. The Silver Dirhem ... ... 32'4 ,, The following suffered no change : The Ptolemaic pound (Tower pound) 54000 O.G.T. Drachma ... ... ... 54'0 ,, The Dirhem Keil of 48 O.G.T. was the Silver dram of Turks, Persians, and Moguls in a.d. 1647 (Greaves). At the same time the drachma, 54 O.G.T. was the Turkish Sultani,