METRIC SYSTEM. - Set of 2 plates. - Lot 88

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METRIC SYSTEM. - Set of 2 plates. - Lot 88
METRIC SYSTEM. - Set of 2 plates. Set of 2 rare plates relating to the birth of the new metric system, which was definitively ratified in 1795: - CONDORCET, BORDA, LAGRANGE, LAPLACE and MONGE]. Rapport sur le choix d'une unité de mesure, read at the Académie des Sciences on March 19, 1791. Printed by order of the National Assembly. [Paris], De l'Imprimerie nationale, [1791]. Plaquette in-8, 12 pages, bradel modern cardboard. First edition. The commission, composed of Condorcet, Borda, Lagrange, Laplace and Monge, decided to take a fraction of a quarter of the meridian as the unit of measurement, and drew up the program of operations required to measure it between Dunkirk and Barcelona (cf. cat. librairie Thomas-Scheler, La Marche des sciences pendant la Révolution, no. 66). - ARBOGAST, BORDA, LAGRANGE and MONGE. On the uniformity and general system of weights and measures. Report and draft decree by citizen Arbogast. Et Rapport fait à l'Académie des sciences par les citoyens Borda, Lagrange et Monge. Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1793. Leaflet in-8 with 40 pages. One folding table.
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