An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations / by Richard Cumberland ...
- Title
- An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations / by Richard Cumberland ...
- Author
- Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Richard Chiswell ...,
- 1686.
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- Subject terms
- Weights and measures, Jewish.
- Weights and measures, Medieval.
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"An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations / by Richard Cumberland ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35425.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 27, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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To the Honourable
SAMUEL PEPYS Esq Secretary of the Admiralty ofEngland, and Presi∣dent of theRoyal Society. - illustration
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OF Scripture-Weights and Measures.
- CHAP. I. The Reasons, general Principles and Method of this Enquiry.
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CHAP. II. Of the
Ammah, or Jewish Cubit, with the Measures thence determined. -
CHAP. III Of the
Epha, and other Measures of Capacity thereby determined. -
CHAP. IV. Of
Shekel, and other Weights and Coins thence determined. -
Corollaries shewing the Uses of this Discourse of
Measures and Weights.
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A Table of the Principal Mea∣sures,
&c. herein contained. - POSTSCRIPT.
- BOOKS Printed for, and Sold by RICHARD CHISWELL.
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Books lately printed for
Ri. Chiswell.