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Description: | Brass foot measure plated with what appears to be silver. Scale on both sides, divided into tenths of inches. In wooden box. Box and lid lined in thin red velvet - 2 small hinges near ends. Piece of paper in box - ' Standard measure of the British Empire taken from the Measure in the Marischal College of Aberdeen by Professor P. Copland by his own hand'. One of the scales examined in detail by John S. Reid in the article "A New Look at Old Linear Measures " Annals of Science, vol 46, pp 221 - 248 (1989). | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1780-1810 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Professor Patrick Copland | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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