toise

But only if we can get to within three hundred and fifty toise?

The perch, the puncheon, the span, the tierce and the toise are all but forgotten.

The toise was redefined as 2 metres.

Three hundred and fifty toise?

Gabriel Mouton around 1670 suggested defining the toise either by a seconds pendulum or a minute of terrestrial degree.

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Subsequently, he investigated the expansion of a toise of iron from the variation in the period of his pendulum.

The French mesures usuelles (1812-1839) did not include any units of length greater than the toise, but the myriametre remained in use throughout this period.

It would be very desirable that all divisions, for example of the livre, the sou, the toise, the day, the hour, etc. would be from tens into tens.

Stieler used as basic unit for scale the French toise, that became an international standard in higher geodesy, because of the French-Spanish map grid survey in Peru.

Next, extended the comparisons to a second Russian toise, the Austrian klafter (and two of its copies), and Spanish and American copies of the metre.

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In response the metre, from the Greek metron, meaning “measure”, was ushered in, helped along by French revolutionaries, eager to replace the Bourbon toise (just under two metres) with an all-new, universal unit.

In 1668 the reference standard was found to have been deformed and it was replaced by the toise du Châtelet which, to accommodate the deformation of the earlier standard, was 11 mm (0.55%) shorter.

The new livre (known as the livre métrique) was defined as five hundred grams, and the new toise (toise métrique) was defined as two metres.

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Until the 19th century, countries based their systems of length measurement on prototypes, metal bar primary standards, such as the standard yard in Britain kept at the Houses of Parliament, and the standard toise in France, kept at Paris.

In 1747 this toise was replaced by a new toise of near-identical length - the Toise du Pérou, custody of which was given to l'Académie des Sciences au Louvre.

The mediaeval royal units of length were based on the toise and in particular the toise de l'Écritoire, the distance between the fingertips of the outstretched arms of a man which was introduced in 790 AD by Charlemagne.

He presented the results in two reports: compared versions of the standard foot/yard (used in surveys of Britain, India and Australia), versions of the toise (from Russia, Belgium and France), the French metre, and the British copy of the metre.

In her Preface to Charlotte de Caumont, she referred to trades workers in construction in Paris, who were at that time beginning to replace pre-Metric system units of measurement, such as the toise, with measurements in tenths as a more efficient system:

By combining the measurements together with those for the arc of Peru, ellipsoid shape parameters were determined and the distance between the equator and pole along the Paris Meridian was calculated as 5130762 toise as specified by the standard toise bar in Paris.