Men and Measures :: TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
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GENERAL VIEW OF THE EVOLUTION OF MEASURES		1

CHAPTER II

THE STORY OF THE CUBITS

1.	The Egyptian common or Olympic cubit	14
	The meridian mile	15
	Greek itinerary measures	16
	The Roman mile	17
2.	The Egyptian royal cubit	18
3.	The great Assyrian or Persian cubit	23
4.	The BelÁdi cubit	26
	The Bereh or equatorial land-mile	27
5.	The Black cubit	28
	Comparative lengths of the five ancient cubits	30

CHAPTER III

THE STORY OF THE TALENTS

1.	The Alexandrian talent	33
	The Medimnos	34
2.	The lesser Alexandrian or PtolemaÏc talent	35
3.	The Greek-Asiatic talent	36
	The Metretes	37
4.	Roman weights and measures of capacity	38
	The new Roman pound	40
5.	The Olympic talent	42
6.	Greek coin-weights	43
7.	The Arabic talent	44
	Measures of capacity derived from Arabic linear measures	47

CHAPTER IV

THE INVOLUTION OF LINEAR MEASURES FROM WEIGHTS
THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH AND OF THE RHINELAND FOOT

1.	The English foot	49
2.	The Rhineland foot	52
3.	The pÁn of Marseilles	53
4.	The filiation of the English foot, of the Rhineland foot, and of the pÁn of Marseilles	55

CHAPTER V

ENGLISH LINEAR MEASURES

1.	The yard, the foot, the inch	58
2.	Standards of the linear measures	59
3.	The hand	61
4.	The ell	62
5.	The rod, furlong, mile, and league	62

CHAPTER VI

LAND-MEASURES

1.	Introduction	65
2.	Evolution of geometric land-measures	66
3.	The story of English land-measures	Clyx.com