Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures
Subtitle: explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations.
Contributors: Arbuthnot, Charles, d. 1731.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: J. Tonson
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.; Money -- Tables -- Early works to 1800.; Prices -- Early works to 1800.; Navigation -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Tables
Notes: Dedicatory verses "To the King" by the author's son, Charles Arbuthnot, to whom the Latin ed. is wrongly ascribed.
"A dissertation concerning the doses of medicines given by ancient physicians": p. 282-327.
Author's name appears in the earlier ed. (London, 1705?) published under title: Tables of the Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins; reduced to the English standard.
Table of contents: title: A dissertation containing the principles and authorities upon which the tables are founded.; title: A dissertation of Roman money affairs.; title: A dissertation concerning the navigation of the ancients.; title: A dissertation concerning the doses of medicines given by ancient physicians.