Aha! Wasn't he the colleague of M. Liter, the Frencman who wrote volumes
in the field of metrology?
Jim
kilopascal wrote:
>
> 2000-12-20
>
> OK! If you really must know who, it was Joule Pascal de la M�trique, a
> French Howard Hughes, who secretly funded the surveying expeditions on the
> condition the new measurement system was named after him.
>
> John
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
....
> Right. Again, the question is who, not why. Can it be attributed to any
> one person?
>
> Jim
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > The term "metric" is old (I do not know how old) from Greek. It means
> > measure.
> > France had many systems of measure, that is, metric systems. Each local
> > government had its own metric system. The national government
> of France made
> > up
> > one system of measures, specified to be decimal. So we have in French
> > history the
> > creation of not just a metric system but a decimal metric
> system. We, being
> > sloppy, have dropped the "decimal". We need to say "decimal" more often.
> > In SI 10 page 60, about the history of SI the second word is "decimal".
> > Robert H Bushnell 00-12-20
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