A SHORT time ago (March 29) Dr. C. E. Guillaume contributed to the Paris Academy of Sciences a paper on the obligatory adoption of the metric system in Japan. The Decent Japanese law making- the ...

SINCE the publication of the article on the Metric System, in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 386, my attention has been drawn to some recent information showing the important part taken by the celebrated ...

A description of the measures used for weight, length and volume in the past, such as cubits, spans, feet, grains of barley, stones and pints. The metric system was introduced to standardise weights ...

Mathematician and author, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was an aristocrat who nevertheless embraced the early stage of the French Revolution. Even as the Jacobins hunted him down during the ...

If the United States were more like the rest of the world, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer, John Henry's 9-pound hammer would be 4.08 kilograms, and any ...