Gode (unit)
Gode was an English measure of length, applied to Boi / Boy (name for a cotton fabric roughened on both sides, densely woven) and frieze and corresponded to the cubit . Since there were other cubits of measure in England , the measure was also called Boy-Fries-Gode to distinguish it .
- 1 Gode = 311 Parisian lines = 701.55 millimeters
- 100 Godes = 125 Paris cubits
literature
- Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobsson, Otto Ludwig Hartwig, Gottfried Erich Rosenthal: Technological dictionary or alphabetical explanation of all useful mechanical arts, manufactories, factories and craftsmen, as well as all works, instruments, tools and artificial words, according to their nature and true use. Volume 2, Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin / Stettin 1782, p. 124.
- Mätzig: Complete tabular mutual comparisons of the new Prussian, Breslau and Berlin measurements and weights, as well as the most excellent, apart from the last mentioned, measurements and weights used in Europe with the Prussian. CWJ Krahn, Hirschberg / Leipzig 1819, page V, table V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rehm: Address book for the Royal Prussian Principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth. Ansbach 1796, p. 63.