Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. Marcia…
Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. Marcia…
The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies in a dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estima…
L'instauration du système métrique décimal à l'aube de la Révolution française ; l'universalité du système métrique : le quart de méridien terrestre est pris pour unité réelle, tandis que sa dix-millionième partie, le mètre, est prise pour unité usuelle ; l'aventure intellectuel…
