Measurement (unit)
The measurement or Maes was a measure of volume for firewood in the Kingdom of Württemberg . According to its dimensions, it was also the regional term for fathoms .
The fathom, or measuring fathom, as the measure was also called, was 6 feet high and as wide with a log length of 4 feet. The volume was 144 cubic feet , calculated according to the Württemberg foot. This was divided into 10 inches by 10 lines , was 127 Parisian lines (22.56 mm each) and resembled the Hamburg foot with around 28.7 centimeters (exactly 28.64903 centimeters).
- 1 = measurement 98.783 Paris cubic foot = 3.386 Ster (cubic meter).
The measurements are based on the legal stipulation in the measures and weights of November 30, 1806. The measure or fathom could be divided into quarters, eighths and corner, the sixteenth.
A task for mental arithmetic (1854)
An earlier collection of exercises for the arithmetic instruction in elementary and tradesmen schools (Nuremberg 1854) contains the appendix "to the thoughts arithmetic " following task no. 27: Two carriages with wooden included: a one Mäss less half a third of the other one and ⅓ Moderately. If now the measure 8 fl. 15 kr. costs; how high does all the wood come?
See also
- Mäs (with a different spelling local measure)
literature
- 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, pp. 300, 302
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger'schen book, paper and map store. Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 368
- ↑ A. König: Collection of exercises for teaching arithmetic ..., second volume, Nuremberg 1854