Cooking the volumes
Popular Physics
2012-01-23 v2
Abstract
Cooking possesses a system of units of measurement, that includes measures of volumes based on pre-metric units. This paper discusses the cooking measures and compares their features with those of the ancient Roman measures of capacity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.3774,
title = {Cooking the volumes},
author = {Amelia Carolina Sparavigna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3774},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Roman measures of capacity, Layout after revision of misprints