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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