History of the metre
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title:
History of the metre
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The history of the metre starts with the Scientific Revolution that is considered to have begun with Nicolaus Copernicus's publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. Increasingly accurate measurements were required, and scientists looked for measures that were universal and could be based on natural phenomena rather than royal decree or physical prototypes. Rather than the various complex systems of subdivision then in use, they also preferred a decimal system to ease their calc
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Origins and values of the unit of length
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre
date created:
2010-07-30T10:32:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T00:41:38Z
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