 It is intended to be, and is very nearly, one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface.  Printers' Arithmetic - Page 134by Charles Lingle Woodfield - 1917 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1861 - 496 pages
...primary base, in this system, for all denominations of weights and measures, is the one-ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface. It is called a METER, and is equal to 39.37 inches, very nearly. The change from the base, in all the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1866 - 508 pages
...christendom. UNITS OF THE SYSTEM. The metre is a measure of length. It is intended to be, and is very nearly, one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured' on the earth's surface. It is 39.37 inches, very nearly. Five metres are a little less than a rod. Q. it. The art is a measure... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 540 pages
...Christendom. UNITS OF THE SYSTEM. The metre is a measure of length. It is intended to be, and is very nearly, one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface. It is 39.37 inches, very nearly. Five metres are a Hide less than a rod. The arc is a measure of surface,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1867 - 486 pages
...primary base, in this system, for all denominations of weights and measures, is the one-ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface. It is called a METER, and is equal to 39.37 inches, very nearly. The change from the base, in all the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Metric system - 1867 - 32 pages
...primary base, in this system, for all denominations "of weights and measures, is the oue-ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface. It is called a METER, and is equal to 39.37 inches, very nearly. The change from the base, in all the... | |
 | 1867 - 564 pages
...Christendom. UNITS OF THE SYSTEM. The metre is a measure of length. It is intended to be, and is very nearly, one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, ineasured on the earth's surface. It is 39.37 inches, very nearly. Five metres are a little less than... | |
 | James Young (author of The buyer's guide.) - 1869 - 84 pages
...Ь,_-Ъ* A SHEET OP USEFUL INFORMATION. The Mètre is the standard of linear measure in France, being the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, and is found to be nearly equal to 39-3707904 English Inches. The Franc is the standard of value in... | |
 | Charles Davies - Science - 1871 - 394 pages
...primary base, in this system, for all denominations of weights and measures, is the one-ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface. It is called a METBE, and is equal to 39.37 inches, very nearly. The change from the base, in all the... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1871 - 300 pages
...principal unit of the system is called a MIJTKE, equal to 39.37 inches, and is the one-ten-milh'onth part of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on the earth's surface. 41. From the metre three other units are made, and these four constitute the primary or principal units... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1873 - 444 pages
...This rod of platinum was intended by the French geometricians Who planned the System to represent the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured along the earth's surface. But, by a careful revision of the geodetical observations required to determine... | |
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