Measures, Weights, & Moneys Of All Nations, And An Analysis Of The Christian, Hebrew, And Mahometan Calendars
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.02.2021
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
308
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,8 cm
Gewicht
503 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5444-543-9
EAN
9789354445439
Behind every historic treaty, voyage, or tithe lay a tangle of measures, coins, and calendars few modern readers can easily decode. Measures, Weights, & Moneys Of All Nations, And An Analysis Of The Christian, Hebrew, And Mahometan Calendars gathers that lost knowledge into a single, rigorous historical metrology reference. Every table tells a story. From ancient cubits and ells to regional bushels, from obscure silver standards to great gold currencies, Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse maps the shifting landscape of weights, measures and money across continents. His antique currency tables and clear equivalences offer an indispensable reference for numismatists, historians of commerce, and readers tracing world currency conversion history through the rise of trade routes, markets, and empires. Equally compelling is Woolhouse's analysis of the Christian, Hebrew, and Mahometan systems, a comparative calendar handbook that sets religious festivals and civil eras side by side. Rooted in classical astronomy and chronology, his treatment of Christian, Hebrew, and Islamic calendars reveals how different cultures reckoned time, aligned sacred days with the heavens, and coordinated business, worship, and law long before standardisation, linking practices across christian hebrew islamic calendars. First published in the nineteenth century, at the height of global trade and empire, this compendium stands alongside antique mathematics treatises and navigational tables of its age: a compact nineteenth century reference work for historians and collectors. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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