[USMA:30698] Civilization One

[David King]

"Using known and accepted archaeological examples as their guide, the 
authors realized that the Metric system, supposedly created in the âage 
of reasonâ at the end of the 18th century, is actually many thousands of 
years old. What is more, in its original form, the Metric system also 
shows a stunning grasp by its instigators of our planet and the part it 
plays in the solar system."

I would like to know about this, about the true origins of metric, I 
think we all would, perhaps the book explains it and maybe someone might 
be able to find out what it says. The metre was originally defined as a 
fraction of the Earth's circumference, so that through the poles the 
circumference is exactly 40,000 km, although when the French scientists 
devised the metre they were out by a tiny fraction.

If the metric system is really so old, then there is no excuse by 
imperialists to not accept it on the grounds of it being a man-made 
modern invention.

David King