| ??? 03/23/07 21:50 Read: times |
#135713 - ALL measurement units were human scaled then... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
... it's just you English who think Empire... :-)
Certainly it's not coincidence! Of course, the rest of world (mainly Europe then) used units created in the same way. Only feet and only in the Austrian Empire were several (oh, empire once again) in that time... This severely limited trade etc., but funnily it was not the businesman nor engineers of the era, but the idealistic writers, who started up the SI... And, funnily, it's mainly engineers who stick to imperial even today... What, the stories, how the ISS parts don't match, AFAIK even one of the early Arianes failed in not matching British and French stages... :-) Steve said:
And the metricians basic, stable fact is wrong, since the Earth is oblate, and tends to writhe around anyway... Certainly. And how much was that known in the late 18th century? JW PS. The standard lengh of pace in our army is 0.75m, exactly... :-) |
