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The description and use of the nocturnal by M. Samuel Foster ... ; with the addition of a ruler, shewing the measures of inches and other parts of most countries, compared with our English ones ; being useful for all merchants & tradesmen.
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- The description and use of the nocturnal by M. Samuel Foster ... ; with the addition of a ruler, shewing the measures of inches and other parts of most countries, compared with our English ones ; being useful for all merchants & tradesmen.
- Author
- Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
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- [London? :: s.n.,
- 1685?]
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- Subject terms
- Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
- Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Early works to 1800.
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"The description and use of the nocturnal by M. Samuel Foster ... ; with the addition of a ruler, shewing the measures of inches and other parts of most countries, compared with our English ones ; being useful for all merchants & tradesmen." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40030.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025.
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In the Diagonall Scale you haue London foot Di∣vided into 1000 Equal parts, Whereof
(France)
- Paris Foot is ... 1:068
- Lions Ell ... 3:976
- Boloine Ell ... 2 076
The XVII Provinces
- Amsterdam foot ... 0:942
- Ell ... 2:269
- Antwerp foot ... 0:948
- Brill foot ... 5:103
- Dort foot ... 1:184
- Leyden foot ... 1:133
- Ell ... 2:260
- Lorain foot ... 0:958
- Mecalin foot ... 0:919
- Middleburg foo 0:991
Germany
- Strasburg foot ... 0:920
- Bremen foot ... 0:964
- Cologne foot ... 0:9••••
- Francfort foot ...0:948
- Menain foot ... 0:948
- Ell ... 1:826
- Hamburg Ell ... 1 905
- Leipsig Ell ... 2:260
- Lubeck Ell ... 1 903
- Noremberg foot ... 1:006
- Ell ... 2:227
- Bavaria foot ... 0:954
- Vienna foot ... 1 053
Spain & Portugall
- Spainish or Castil. palm: 751
- Spanish Vare or rod 3:004
- Spanish foot ... 3:004
- Lisbon Vare ... 2:750
- Gibralter Vare ... 2:760
- Toledo foot ... 0:399
- Vare ... 2:685
Italy
- Roman foot on the Monum of Cossutius 0:967
- of Statelius 0:972
- Roman foot for building w. of 10 make ye Cauna 0 722
- Bononia foot ... 1 204
- Ell ... 2 113
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- Bononian Perch w: of 500 to a Mile ... 12:040
- Florence Brace, or ell 1:913
- Naples Palm ... 0:861
- Brace ... 2:100
- Cauna ... 6:880
- Genoa Palm ... 0 830
- Mantua foot ... 1 569
- Milan Calamus 6:544
- Parma Cubit ... 1:860
- Venice foot ... 1 162
Other Places
- Danzick foot ... 0:944
- Ell ... 1:903
- Copenhagen foot 0:965
- Prague foot ... 1:026
- Riga foot ... 1:831
- China cubit ... 1 016
- Turin foot ... 1 062
- Cairo cubit ... 1 824
- Persian Arash ... 3 197
- Turkish Pike at Con¦stantinop: the greater 2:20••
- The Greek foot ... 1:••07
- Moutons vniversal foot ... 0 675 * 1.1
Ex: per me Jonas Moor
Notes
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* 1.1
A Pendulum of wch length will Vibrate 132 times in a minute, A Pendulum of 3 foot 268 parts long will Vibrate 60 times in a minut••