Roger:
I own one of these books, I think the Zupko one. I'm still in Oz but will be home on Monday and will check. From memory my opinion was that it was interesting but, for the purposes that I needed, not particularly useful. If you are interested let me know off list and I'll look at it to refresh my memory and give you my opinion. Same for anyone else with an interest in this topic. I don't know about bushels; I was interested in units used in mining.
John
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7. British / English Weights and Measures
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:39:09 +0100
From: roger gosling
Subject: British / English Weights and Measures
I came across references to these two books recently on the internet. I haven't seen them, but they
look like they might solve the eternal argument about bushels (no - I doubt it really!)
Does anyone have any opinions on these books; are they worth tracking down?
The Weights and Measures of England
by R D Connor
H M S O, London, 1987 (422 pages)
ISBN 0 460 86137 9
A scholarly and detailed account of the history of the development of the
British (Imperial) system of weights and measures from the earliest times.
British Weights and Measures
by R E Zupko
A history from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977 [248 pages]
ISBN 0 299 07340 8
The actual history occupies only 100 pages. There is then an extensive list
of the various units used in commerce, tables of many pre-Imperial units, a
long list of pre-metric measures used in Europe together with their British
and metric equivalents, and nearly 40 pages giving other sources.
All the best
Roger
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