Historical metrology of Cardona salt (11th-18th centuries) Authors Enric Aragonés Keywords: historic metrology, dry and weight measures, salt measures, Cardona, Catalonia, Spain Abstract The article explains selected changes in different salt measurement units by determining the saline output’s apparent density. First, around the mid-12th-century, the ancient sester (a dry measure of 24,4 l) was replaced by the four times bigger new sester; and the carga (equivalent to 3 quintals) substituted the somades — variable loads for pack animals. And second, in the Modern Age, the aimina (a measurement unit exclusively used for mine salt given as stately concession) grew from 2,5 quintals in 1403 to 6 quintals in 1623. Finally, the article analyzes the evolution of salt prices between the 14th and 18th centuries, adding new data to the salt mine’s economic history.Key words: historic metrology, dry and weight measures, salt measures, Cardona, Catalonia, Spain Author Biography Enric Aragonés Geòleg Downloads PDF (Català) Issue Vol. 12-13 : 2019 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
