Bernese cubit
The Bern cubit was a measure of length in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . It could be divided into halves, quarters and eighths, but also into thirds and sixths. The cubit was not, as usual, the double foot , i.e. the double Bernese shoe long. The cubit and foot were in a ratio of 72 to 133.
- 1 Bern cubit = 240.139 Parisian lines = 0.5417 meters
The conversion factor for the important Langenthal cubit was around 0.869.
literature
- List of the objects of art industry, which are contained in the exhibition opened in Bern in the month of 1830 . C. Rätzer, Bern 1830, p. 2.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist. Volume 1, heirs of the author, Hamburg 1782, p. 88.