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 Foot10000.12.0100
France.   
Paris, the Royal Foot1.0681.00.80.93
Lyon Ell3.9763.11.71.09
Boloyne Ell2.0762.00.80.89
The 17 Provinces.   
Amsterdam Foot0 9420.11.30.93
Ell2.2692.03.2 
Antwerp Foot.9460.11.30.98
Ell2.2732.03.3 
Brill Foot1.1031.01.2 
Dort Foot1.1841.02.2 
Rynland or Leyden foot1.0331.00.40.96
Ell2.2602.03.1 
Lorain Foot.9580.11.40.98
Mecalin Foot.9190.11.00.98
Middlebourg Foot.9910.11.90.98

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Germany.   
Strasbourgh Foot.9200.11.00.93
Bremen Foot.9640.11.60.94
Cologn Foot.9540.11.40.97
Frankford and Me∣nain Foot.948.11.40.93
Ell1.8261.09.9 
Hambrough Ell1.9051.10.80.95
Leipsig Ell2.2602.03.11.17
Lubick Ell1.9031.09.8 
Noremburgh1.0061.00.10.94
Ell2.2272.03.3 
Bavaria.9540.11.4 
Vienna1.0531.00.60.83
Spain and Portugal.   
Spanish Palm, or the Palm of Castile..7510.09.00.99
The Spanish Vare or Rod, (four Palms)3.0043.00.0 
Their Foot is ⅓ of the Vare1.0011.00.0 
Lisbon Vare2.7502.09.01.06
Gibralter Vare2.7602.09.11.03
Toledo Foot.8990.10.71.00
Vare2.6852.08.2 
Italy.   
Roman Foot, on the Monum. of Cossutius.9670.11.61.23
Of Statelius.9720.11.7 
Roman Palm, for building, where∣of ten make the Cauna.7320.08.8 

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Bononia Foot1.2041.02.41.27
Ell2.1472.01.7 
Perch, whereof 500 to a Mile.12.04012.00.5 
Florence Brace or Ell1.9131.11.01.23
Naples Palm.8610.09.61.43
Brace2.1002.01.2 
Cauna6.8806.10.5 
Genua Palm.830.09.61.42
Mantoua Foot1.5691.06.81.43
Milan Calamus6.5446.06.51.40
Parma Cubit1.8661.10.41.43
Venice Foot1.1621.01.91.53
Other Places.   
Dantzick Foot.9440.11.31.19
Ell1.9031.10.8 
Copenhagen Foot.965.11.60.94
Prague (in Bohemia) Foot1.0261.00.31.06
Riga Foot1.8311.09.9 
China Cubit1.0161.00.2 
Turin Foot1.0621.00.7 
Cairo Cubit1.8241.09.91.61
Persian Arash3.1973.02.3 
Turkish Pike, at Con∣stantinop. the greater2.2002.02.40.86
The Greek Foot1.0071.00.1 
Montons Universal foot0.675.08.11 
A Pendulum of the just length whereof will Vi∣brate 132 times in a Minute.   

Ex. by me, Jonas Moore,

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