Hi,
cannot resist smiling, and cannot resist to comment on "The pound weight in
medieval mining and metallurgy."
Prof. Ekkehard Westermann, of Germany, in his "Das Eislebener Garkupfer fuer
den europaeischen Kupfermarkt 1460-1560," translated as "The refined Saiger
Copper of Eisleben (Koeln: Boehlau 1971) tells us that a hundredweight was
different in literally every single German town where something was weighed,
then, in those years...
which allows the conclusion that they did not really know what they were
weighing.....
Helmut Waszkis
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