A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 872
rking them by proper officers, aitetbeing adjuited by fome original ftandaid,Thus, in England, the ftandard oiweights is kept in the exchequer, byparticular officer called the cleik of tamarket. See the article Clerk.Weights may be diftinguifhed in to ailtient and modern, foreign and… … *^;^ / W E I C 34*9 ] W E I ft. Grecian and Roman weights, reduced to englifh troy weight, will ftand as in thefollowing table : Lentes .-»»«. Siliquse - - - - » 3 lObolus - - Sctiptulura - r 24 71 3 a 144 192 5766911 r8 144 1728 6 1 Drachma 8 4 t-MSextuIa ii 6 2 u Sicilicus 16 8 *fp 7]|DuelIa 48 !…
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