"Cubic meter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... In Ravenna a cistern had greater value in exchange than a vineyard: Martial, III, 56. In Paris, too, drinking water, which is transported only with considerable trouble, costs 1-1/3 thalers per cubic meter. We may also mention snow and ice in summer, which last sells in the capitals of southern Europe at 0.34, silber groschens per pound. According to Carey, "utility" is the measure of man's power over nature, "value," the measure of nature's power over man. He very inaccurately adds, that ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher
... numerals; thus, decimetres, tenths of meters; centimetres, hundredths of meters; milliametres, thousandths of meters. The unit adopted for square measure was the are, equal to 100 square meters; for solid measure, the stere, equal to one cubic meter; and for measure of capacity, the litre, a cubic decimeter. The weights were derived from these measures; the gramme being the weight of one cubic centimeter of distilled water. The system of decimal gradation ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 - Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 • Various |
