Konrad Eisenbichler schrieb:
> Metric measurements are also based on nature -- on the meridian of the
> earth (1 m. was originally defined as 1/40-millionth part of the meridian)
>
As far as I can gather the meter was "invented" to gain an abstract system of
measurement, independent from any bodily analogy (You showed the problem), and to
gain a decimal system from mikro to tera or whatsoever.
Marcus Frings
Darmstadt University of Technology
Art History
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