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Title

Facsimile of LJS 217, Rapport sur les poids et mesures

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

7-24-2015

Files

Comments

Excerpt from the register of the deliberations of the Société royale académique de Savoie, most of which is a report from a commission named to investigate the standardization of weights and measures. The report recommends the adoption of specific decimal liquid measures such as liters and the pegging of retained national measures, such as the pied for land area and the grenette de Chambéry for grain volume, to specific percentages of international decimal measures. Information at the end identifies the report as an excerpt, records that the report was unanimously adopted, and is signed by G. M. Raymond, secrétaire perpétuel de la Société (f. 12r).

Keywords

Weights and measures--France--History, Metric system--History Reports, Manuscripts French--19th century, Manuscripts Digital

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5407600

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs217.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 217, Rapport sur les poids et mesures" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 185.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/185