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The Seven Measures of the World

Piero Martin 2021/2023 CedarMill 530.18 Martin

fusion researcher at University of Padova

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

• p008 stere cubic meter of cut firewood

• p008 meter defined as 1e-7 of distance from North Pole to Equator through Paris

• p009 1960 Oct 15 Hamburg: John/Paul/George/Ringo record Gershwin's Summertime Pete Best?

• p009 Original Système international d'unités was meter, second, kilogram, ampere, Kelvin, candela; mole added in 1971

• p011 Redefined 2018 Nov 16 by fundamental physical constants

• p016 1946 May 3 Einstein attends Lincoln University graduation, "first college degree for an African American student"

  • er, no, Alexander Lucius Twilight 1823 from Middlebury College in Vermont

• p021 Roman passus 1.48 meters 4.854 feet, left+right step, hence 29 inches per step

• p026 International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres? (or Saint-Cloud?) near Paris

• p028 Heinrich Hertz 1893? Maxwell electromagnetic waves "will have any practical application"

• p039 "c" either constant or celeritas (velocity)

• p049 Luxor Obelisk traded for mechanical clock in 1830

• p051 Galileo timing cathedral lamp swing, isochronism of the pendulum
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