[Sca-cooks] period measures

[Terry Decker]

For the change in measure, a case in point is the English monetary system.
One of the Henry's redefined the English monetary system by establishing a
new pound standard while retaining the relationship of 20 silver pennies to
one ounce of gold and 12 ounces to the pound.  The French equivalent, the
livre was standardised in 1350.  Troy measure predates both of these.

Bear


 As nation states became more powerful in Western Europe during the late
>> Middle Ages, most kept the form of the Troyes measure but established
their
>> own standards.
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>Do you mean they didn't use a one troy ounce measure? Using something else
that was standardized to X troy ounces? Or something else?
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>It is interesting that we still use the troy ounce and that it can be
traced
>to the average wieght of a particular type of wheat at a particular time.
Much
>as the railway guage used today can be traced to the spacing of the Roman
>chariot wheels. Or why much of the world uses a technically inferior
computer
>operating system or the qwerty keyboard.
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>Stefan