Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hocquet, Jean-Claude (1936-....)
Titre(s) : Le marchand et les poids et mesures [Texte imprimé] / Jean-Claude Hocquet
Publication : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-254 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Variorum collected studies ; CS1107
Lien à la collection : Collected studies series
Note(s) : Recueil d'articles et de textes parus dans des revues et publications, 1989-2017.
- Bibliogr. p. 220-242. Index
Textes en français, traduits de l'allemand, de l'anglais et de l'italien. - Résumé
et notice biographique en anglais
Sujet(s) : Poids et mesures -- Histoire
Poids et mesures -- Aspect économique
Mesure -- Histoire
Mesure -- Aspect économique
Genre ou forme : Articles de périodiques
Indice(s) Dewey :
389.109 (23e éd.) = Métrologie - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-032-34547-5 (hbk). - ISBN 1032345470. - ISBN 9781032345499. - ISBN 1032345497.
- ISBN 9781003322733 (erroné)
EAN 9781032345475
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471361646
Notice n° :
FRBNF47136164
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Résumé : "Published in French in this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty
years of scholarship and publication. Many have been updated and translated from German
and Italian into French for the first time. The chapters all deal with merchants,
of whom the author is a world-renowned specialist, and their use of local weights
and measures during the Middle Ages and the modern period. The reader is taken on
a journey from the Carolingian Empire to pre-Columbian Mexico and post-colonial Java
or Madagascar, from the measures of ancient Rome to the aluminium can of the 21st
century. As the author has specialised in the history of salt and saltworks or of
the sea, the book also makes room for salt springs, fish and fishing ports in northern
Europe, and finally the scholarly investigation leads to the history of food, bread
and cereals. The book expands on the earlier survey published in the Variorum series,
which dealt mainly with Venice and salt, and was very well received by the educated
public, who still wonder how people overcame the chaos of the old measures. The revolution
of 1789 put an end to this situation by inventing the metre and the decimal system"--
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