Chandler's cubit

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The Krämer cubit was an old German measure of length and was mainly used in Augsburg .

It was also called the large cubit and differed from the small cubit or farshent and linen cubit by around 2 centimeters .

  • 1 Krämer cubit = 0.60637 meters = 268.8 (270 ⅕) Parisian lines = 0.72793 Bavarian cubits
  • 1 barchent and linen cubit = 0.58652 meters = 260 (262 ⅗) Parisian lines = 0.70410 Bavarian cubits

When comparing were

  • 11 large cubits = 8 Bavarian cubits
  • 10 small cubits = 7 Bavarian cubits

The old Kramer-Elle in France was as long as the Frankfurt staff and had 524 Paris lines . This made it a little smaller than the old Elle, marked Aune (1.1884 meters), which was 526 ⅚ Parisian lines long. 1 Parisian Krämer-Elle was 1.182 meters.

literature

  • Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 76.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Nelkenbrecher: JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 37.
  2. ^ Adolph Gutbier: Textbook of commercial arithmetic: based on JB Juvigny's application de ..., Verlag Georg Franz, Munich 1847, p. 402.
  3. CLW Aldefeld, The dimensions and weights of the German customs union states and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relationships, Verlag JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1838, p. 61.
  4. JM Knell: Theoretical-practical arithmetic book according to the shortest and easiest methods. Self-published by the author, Landau in der Pfalz 1845, p. 259.