Louis JOURDAN wrote:
....
> Well, not sure, even if you are totally right!: in 1675 the Italian
> scientist Tito Livio Burattini had proposed a universal unit of
> measurement based on the length of the pendulum beating the second. He
> had named this unit "metro catholico", simply meaning "universal
> measure". Indeed there is very little chance that Mozart or dal Ponte
> had ever heard about Burattini and his "metro" (unless Burattini was
> Freemason, who knows...)
Thank you for that lead to an interesting man and his many
contributions, Louis! I have added this particular item to my SI history
timeline at
http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/background.htm
under the date 1675.
Jim
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