Excerpt from Modern Metrology: A Manual of the Metrical Units and Systems of the Present Century; With an Appendix Containing a Proposed English System A collection of the measures of all nations constitutes in one form an annal of the world, and metrology in the same way corresponds to history in this respect measures become scientifically interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.