The history of the metre starts with the Scientific Revolution that is considered to have begun with Nicolaus Copernicus's publication of De revolutionibus...

The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined...

The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May...

on the kilogram and the metre. The basic units were taken from the natural world. The unit of length, the metre, was based on the dimensions of the Earth...

circumference#History Earth's radius#History Flat Earth Friedrich Robert Helmert History of geodesy History of the metre Meridian arc#History Seconds pendulum Cloud...

L'histoire du mètre [The History of the Metre] (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2015-10-12 – via histoire.du.metre.free.fr....

of 200 m. It was adopted by the IUGG as "international ellipsoid 1924". Bedford Level experiment Figure of the Earth History of the metre History of cadastre...

triangulation.]. L'Histoire Du Mètre [The history of the metre] (in French). histoire.du.metre.free.fr. Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2015-10-12...

(UTC). Since its establishment, the directors of the BIPM have been: History of the metre Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements International...

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