No Scruples About It: The Apothecary System

Guest Author Stephen Hall, Computer Science & Engineering Librarian, University of Pennsylvania Libraries “Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary;sweeten my imagination. There’s money for thee” -King Lear, Act IV.6.145-146 When weighing or measuring things, we typically think of either the metric or imperial systems. Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, numerous other systems have been used […]