Category: History - Ancient
The object of this essay is to enquire into the origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards. Since August Boeckh in his metrological enquiries[1] put forth the idea that the weight standards of antiquity had been obtained scientifically, all subsequent writers with scarce...
The object of this essay is to enquire into the origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards. Since August Boeckh in his metrological enquiries[1] put forth the idea that th...
6. CHAPTER II.Let us here propound the doctrine which seeks to obtain an explanation of the origin for weight-standards more in accordance with the facts of history and the process of develop...
7. CHAPTER III.And round about him lay on every side Great heapes of gold that never could be spent, Of which some were rude owre not purified Of Mulciber’s devouring element. Some others were...
8. CHAPTER IV.There can be little doubt that from the extreme West of Europe to Northern India, or rather to China and the Pacific shore, there was complete intercourse in the way of trade, f...
9. CHAPTER V.We have seen in the preceding pages that from the Atlantic seaboard right across into Further Asia the ox was universally spread, and from a period long before the daybreak of h...
10. CHAPTER VI.We have now proved four things: (1) the general distribution of the ox throughout our area, (2) its universal employment as the unit of value throughout the same region, (3) the...
11. CHAPTER VII.We have now found that within the area where our weight standards arose the ox was universally diffused, and regarded as the chief and most general form of property and medium o...
12. CHAPTER VIII.We have seen that the Chinese system of weights is based upon natural seeds of plants, and we have actually found the wild hillsmen of Annam and Laos weighing their gold dust by...
13. CHAPTER IX.We now proceed to the statement and criticism of the old doctrines of the origin of metallic currency and weight standards. To enter into an elaborate account of the various sha...
14. CHAPTER X.We are now in a position to approach the last stage in our task, that which deals with the growth and development of various weight-standards, all of which start from a common u...
15. CHAPTER XI.“The Lydians,” says Herodotus, “were the first of all nations we know who struck gold and silver coin[350],” a tradition also attested by Xenophanes of Colophon, according to Ju...
16. CHAPTER XII.We are now come to the most important portion of our task, the development of the Greek and Italic systems. In the Homeric Poems we found the Talanton (or value of a cow in gold...
17. Part I. The Archaic Inscriptions and the Greek Alphabet.=A Catalogue of Ancient Marbles in Great Britain=, by Prof. ADOLF MICHAELIS. Translated by C. A. M. FENNELL, Litt. D., late Fellow of Jesus College. Royal 8vo. Roxburgh (Morocco...