Gambetta (unit)
Gambetta , more rarely Cambetta or Gombetta , was an Italian measure of volume. The grain measure was common in the Genoa region.
- 1 gambetta = 61½ Parisian cubic inches = 1.214 liters
- 12 gambets = 1 Ottavi
- 96 gambettes = 1 mina = 116.5596 liters
literature
- Ludwig Fort: The latest universal encyclopedia of all commercial sciences. Volume 2, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1852, pp. 287, 301
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial sciences, containing: coin, measure and weight, bills of exchange, government paper, banking and stock exchange; the most important of higher arithmetic […]. Volume 1, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1837, p. 294.
- ^ Herder's Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 1, Freiburg im Breisgau 1854, p. 766.