doi:10.1080/00293650902904539Marc Vander LindenHelle VandkildePrzemysaw MakarowiczJanusz CzebreszukEinar stmoChristopher PrescottLene MelheimM. Pilar Prieto-MartínezTaylor & Francis
This project was approved by the National Assembly in 1790 and a basic unit or "meter" of measurement proposed, which was to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the terrestrial pole and the Equator. In 1792 Méchain and Delambre were appointed to make the necessary geodetic ...