Ras (unit)

The Ras or Raso was an Italian measure of length and was valid in Piedmont and Montferrat . In Lucca it was the same as the Venetian bream (or Braccio ).

conversion

Raso means ell and has a different value depending on the region.

• 1 ras = 1 foot and 9 inches and 4 lines = 1/2 Paris cubit = 0.5942 meters
• 1 Raso = 0.5488 meters
• 1 Raso = 10 Oncen = 0.7195 Bavarian cubits = 0.5994 meters
• 1 Raso = 267 2/5 Parisian lines = 603 millimeters
• 1 Raso = 243.3 Paris lines

See also

Braccio

literature

• Herrmann Julius Meyer : The large conversation lexicon for the educated classes. Department 2, Volume 5, Printing and Publishing of the Bibliographical Institute, Hildburgshausen 1850, p. 508.
• Johann Georg Krünitz , Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Friedrich Jakob Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth: Economic encyclopedia or general system of the land, house and state economy. Volume 6, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1801, p. 519.
• Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange-government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863.
• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weight of all countries in the world. .... Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 273.

Web links

• Ferdinand von Malaisé : Theoretical-practical instruction in arithmetic. 1847, page 359

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://home.fonline.de/rs-ebs/geschichte/groessen/mas14.htm
2. ^ Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or .... Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 215.