Yeah everyone had their archaic human-derived measures but every city on the Rhine had a different system.
If you were a cologne cabbage trader and had 100 cologne pounds of cabbage, the would be 104 pounds in Düsseldorf, 98 pounds in Mainz, 91 in Karlsruhe and 102 in Frankfurt.
Wonderful human derived measurements.
I get the impression some people think the whole world was English imperial units and then we started to turn metric on a whim.
Metric is wonderful for international and interregional trade and communication. There’s practically only one blank spot on that map.
Yeah everyone had their archaic human-derived measures but every city on the Rhine had a different system.
If you were a cologne cabbage trader and had 100 cologne pounds of cabbage, the would be 104 pounds in Düsseldorf, 98 pounds in Mainz, 91 in Karlsruhe and 102 in Frankfurt.
Wonderful human derived measurements.
I get the impression some people think the whole world was English imperial units and then we started to turn metric on a whim.
Metric is wonderful for international and interregional trade and communication. There’s practically only one blank spot on that map.