. A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced . is foot ? ? The Venetian foot ??— The Rhinland foot, or that of SneUius —?The Derah, or cubit, at Cairo in ^gypt - --The Perfian arifli The greater Turkilh pike at ConftantinopkThe leffer Turkidi pike at Conftaniinople is in pro-portion to the greater,a$ 31 to 31 — The Draccioat Florence »? The braccio for wollenat Siena ?The braccio for linnen at Siena - - The braccio at Naples The canna at Naples The vara at Almaria & at Gibraltar in Spain—llpa
. A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced . is foot ? ? The Venetian foot ??— The Rhinland foot, or that of SneUius —?The Derah, or cubit, at Cairo in ^gypt - --The Perfian arifli The greater Turkilh pike at ConftantinopkThe leffer Turkidi pike at Conftaniinople is in pro-portion to the greater,a$ 31 to 31 — The Draccioat Florence »? The braccio for wollenat Siena ?The braccio for linnen at Siena - - The braccio at Naples The canna at Naples The vara at Almaria & at Gibraltar in Spain—llpalmo di ArchitettiztRome, whereof Xmakethe Canna di Architeti llpalmo del braccio di Mercantia, & di Teftto diTela at Rome: this and the former are both in-graven in a white marble ftone in the Capitolwith this infcription Curante Lu, Tato • • • • The Genoa palm -? ? The Anvferp ell ? ? ? . — The Amfterdam ell — —^ The Leyden cil lOCO 967 1068ii6z10351824 ZlOO I9I3 1242 1974 2I0O 6880 2760732 691\815 228j2168 2i6o Thii Table I made by the Standards^ the formerhi proportion^ or ^i. OF THE DENARIVS, ;S I have made for meafures the Ro-mane foot, the foundation of myinquiry, and therefore have hand-led it in the precedent Treatife: fofor finding out of weights, Ifhal take the denaritts as an undeniable principle,from whence thole of the ancients by a neceffa-ry confcquence may be inferred. For as the u-nity is in refpeft of numbers, or the fejiertimin difcourfes de re nttrnmaria : fo is the denariusfor weights, a fit rife, or beginning, fromwhence the reft may be deduced. Not but thatit were better (as I gave the caution before)if we abfolutely confider the exa(f>cft waies ofdifcovering weights, to begin with the grea-ter, and by them to find outthelefle, then bythe lefle, to produce the greater; but if welook upon the condition of times, and confi-der the means that are left after fo many revo-lutions, and changes oftheRomane Empire, itwill be f
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