Could you please direct me to where I can find copies of the articles:
- Metre is 5000 Year Old (PTI News); The Statesman (& others), New Delhi; 1974 March 18
- Linear Standard in the Indus Civilisation: FRONTIERS OF THE INDUS CIVILISATION (Sir Mortimer Wheeler Commemoration Volume 1984); Indian Archaeological Society; Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi; Doc # 16; pp 153-156.
Cheers and thank you,
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
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On 26/01/06 4:29 AM, "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Pat.
> My investigation took me to re-examine 'evidence in the form of Indus Inch'
> that led me to establish *Metre and Metric System were over 5000-years old*.
> My concern had been since there has been 'infringements upon my COPYRIGHTED
> works' without according me due credit. I quote:
> *Metre is 5000  Year Old (PTI News); The Statesman (& others), New
> Delhi; 1974 March 18
> *Linear Standard in the Indus Civilisation: FRONTIERS OF THE INDUS
> CIVILISATION (Sir
> Mortimer Wheeler Commemoration Volume 1984); Indian Archaeological
> Society;
> Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi; Doc # 16; pp 153-156.
> This is up dating John Hynes site & Swatch Watch company, for needful
> corrective measure.
> Brij Bhushan Vij
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>> From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [USMA:35834] Re: Indus Metre RE: Re: History of imperial since
>> 1824
>> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:44:42 +1100
>>
>> On 25/01/06 1:44 PM, "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sirs:
>>>> .....some of the issues that have been tried over the last 5000 years.
>>> AND sadly, no mention is ever made to India's contribution of Time &
>> Length
>>> Measure matching *the Metric System - via the METRE* used then, that
>> dates
>>> back to Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro times via the excavations done by Sir
>> Mortimer
>>> Wheeler's measurements and the work done by Daya Ram Sawhney - his
>>> surveyor-secretary, I assume.
>>> Regards,
>>> Brij Bhushan Vij
>>
>> Dear Brij,
>>
>> In writing 'Metrication timeline', at
>> http://metricationmatters.com/articles I had no intention of writing about
>> any time unit other than the second. As you and I both know, the second is
>> the only unit for measuring time within The International System of Units
>> (SI) and it was the only unit of time in previous metric systems.
>>
>> The issues of measuring time for personal and commercial reasons is a
>> parallel issue to that of all other measuring. These issues are not now,
>> and
>> they has never been, part of the metric system.
>>
>> The 1795 definition of the metre based on the quadrant does not refer to
>> time in any way. It refers only to a single quantity of plane angle (a
>> right
>> angle) and a length of 10 000 000 metres.
>>
>> How the quantity of a quadrant was realised in terms of degrees, minutes,
>> seconds, radians, or whatever is immaterial. But none of these have any
>> direct connection with the measurement of time.
>>
>> The measurement of time has its own history and — dare I say it — its own
>> timeline.
>>
>> I simply do not see that minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, months,
>> years, and centuries have anything to do with the metric system or with SI,
>> although I recognise that many very capable people have spent large
>> proportions of their lives trying to devise methods to coordinate these
>> time
>> measures and the many conversion factors between them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pat Naughtin
>> PO Box 305 Belmont 3216
>> Geelong, Australia
>> 61 3 5241 2008
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.metricationmatters.com
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