Aam (unit)
The Aam (word origin from the Middle Latin from Latin ama = water bucket) was a Dutch measure of volume and was used for wine and grain brandy . The amount was calculated differently for oil . Aam was equal to the volume measure of Dutch pitchers.
- 1 Aam = 4 anchors = 8 Steckan / Steekan / Stechkanne = 21 quarters = 64 Stoopen / Stopen = 128 Mingelen = 256 pints = 1024 Misjes / Mutsjes = 155.224 liters
For rapeseed and linseed oil had
- 1 Aam = 7 ½ Steckan = 120 Mingelen / Mengeln = 145.523 liters
In Antwerp the Aam had 100 pot. The pot was used with 142.19 centiliters as the basic measure for the volume measure (grain and liquid), so that the old Aam was about 13 liters smaller.
See also
literature
- Ludolph Schleier: The commercial science. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, p. 88
- Samuel C. Bunzel: New commercial arithmetic book. Volume 2, Gustav Philipp Jakob Bieling, Nuremberg 1789, pp. 120, 1213
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1854, p. 95
- ^ Georg Kaspar Chelius , Johann Friedrich Hauschild, Heinrich Christian Schumacher: Measure and weight book. Jäger'sche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, pp. 89, 93