A New Way to Read Boyle's Works |
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| Authors: | Rose-Mary Sargent |
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| Institution: | 1. History of Science Research Group, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK, and Department of Scottish History , University of Edinburgh , Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LN, UK;2. Department of Physics , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada |
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| Abstract: | An examination of British and French weights exchanged between the Royal Society and the Académie royale des sciences in the 1730s has led to a re‐assessment of the Elizabethan troy standards from the Exchequer and the suggestion that the mass of the troy pound has been revised upwards. In turn this is used to support the idea of an evolutionary relationship between the early bullion ounces of England, France, and the Low Countries. |
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