The description and use of two arithmetick instruments together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick, as likewise a perpetual almanack and several useful tables : presented to His most excellent Majesty Charles II ... / by S. Morland.
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The description and use of two arithmetick instruments together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick, as likewise a perpetual almanack and several useful tables : presented to His most excellent Majesty Charles II ... / by S. Morland.
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Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695.
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London :: Printed and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...,
1673.
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Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800.
Calculators.
Almanacs, English.
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"The description and use of two arithmetick instruments together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick, as likewise a perpetual almanack and several useful tables : presented to His most excellent Majesty Charles II ... / by S. Morland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51382.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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Forreign Weights and Measures, carefully compared with the English, by the great pains and industry of the famous, and my worthy Friend, Sir Jonas Moor, Knight.
English Foot, into 1000 e∣qual parts.
English foot, in∣to inches, and tenth parts of an inch.
The pound A∣verdupois into 100 parts.
London Foot
1000
0.12.0
100
France.
Paris, the Royal Foot
1.068
1.00.8
0.93
Lyon Ell
3.976
3.11.7
1.09
Boloyne Ell
2.076
2.00.8
0.89
The 17 Provinces.
Amsterdam Foot
0 942
0.11.3
0.93
Ell
2.269
2.03.2
Antwerp Foot
.946
0.11.3
0.98
Ell
2.273
2.03.3
Brill Foot
1.103
1.01.2
Dort Foot
1.184
1.02.2
Rynland or Leyden foot
1.033
1.00.4
0.96
Ell
2.260
2.03.1
Lorain Foot
.958
0.11.4
0.98
Mecalin Foot
.919
0.11.0
0.98
Middlebourg Foot
.991
0.11.9
0.98
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Germany.
Strasbourgh Foot
.920
0.11.0
0.93
Bremen Foot
.964
0.11.6
0.94
Cologn Foot
.954
0.11.4
0.97
Frankford and Me∣nain Foot
.948
.11.4
0.93
Ell
1.826
1.09.9
Hambrough Ell
1.905
1.10.8
0.95
Leipsig Ell
2.260
2.03.1
1.17
Lubick Ell
1.903
1.09.8
Noremburgh
1.006
1.00.1
0.94
Ell
2.227
2.03.3
Bavaria
.954
0.11.4
Vienna
1.053
1.00.6
0.83
Spain and Portugal.
Spanish Palm, or the Palm of Castile.
.751
0.09.0
0.99
The Spanish Vare or Rod, (four Palms)
3.004
3.00.0
Their Foot is ⅓ of the Vare
1.001
1.00.0
Lisbon Vare
2.750
2.09.0
1.06
Gibralter Vare
2.760
2.09.1
1.03
Toledo Foot
.899
0.10.7
1.00
Vare
2.685
2.08.2
Italy.
Roman Foot, on the Monum. of Cossutius
.967
0.11.6
1.23
Of Statelius
.972
0.11.7
Roman Palm, for building, where∣of ten make the Cauna
.732
0.08.8
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Bononia Foot
1.204
1.02.4
1.27
Ell
2.147
2.01.7
Perch, whereof 500 to a Mile.
12.040
12.00.5
Florence Brace or Ell
1.913
1.11.0
1.23
Naples Palm
.861
0.09.6
1.43
Brace
2.100
2.01.2
Cauna
6.880
6.10.5
Genua Palm
.830
.09.6
1.42
Mantoua Foot
1.569
1.06.8
1.43
Milan Calamus
6.544
6.06.5
1.40
Parma Cubit
1.866
1.10.4
1.43
Venice Foot
1.162
1.01.9
1.53
Other Places.
Dantzick Foot
.944
0.11.3
1.19
Ell
1.903
1.10.8
Copenhagen Foot
.965
.11.6
0.94
Prague (in Bohemia) Foot
1.026
1.00.3
1.06
Riga Foot
1.831
1.09.9
China Cubit
1.016
1.00.2
Turin Foot
1.062
1.00.7
Cairo Cubit
1.824
1.09.9
1.61
Persian Arash
3.197
3.02.3
Turkish Pike, at Con∣stantinop. the greater
2.200
2.02.4
0.86
The Greek Foot
1.007
1.00.1
Montons Universal foot
0.675
.08.11
A Pendulum of the just length whereof will Vi∣brate 132 times in a Minute.
Ex. by me,
Jonas Moore,
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