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RAMEL, Système métrique, 1808 Suisse
RAMEL, Abraham Louis.
Système métrique, ou Instruction abrégée sur les nouvelles mesures, avec des calculs qui leur sont relatifs, et des tables de comparaison pour réduire les nouvelles mesures en anciennes et les anciennes en nouvelles; suivis d'une instruction sur les nouvelles monnaies de France, ainsi que d'une description abrégée des poids et mesures de Berne et de Lausanne.
Neuchatel, Mme Fauche Née Borel, 1808.
8vo (178x114 mm), frontispiece, xv-(1)-335 pages. binding : Contemporary full red morocco, gilt flat spine. All edges gilden. Binding slightly rubbed.
First edition.
Book promoting the use of the metric system in Switzerland. If Switzerland received in 1801 a copy of the standard meter deposited in Paris, the metric system took several decades to be adopted in all the cantons of the confederation.
"Besides the description that my book gives of the new and old measures of Paris, it can also be considered as a complete treatise of three kinds of measures; namely, those of Neuchâtel, Bern and Lausanne: these neighboring countries will doubtless also adopt under little this system, which has simplicity as its basis" (excerpt from the preface)
Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.
Price : 1200 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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