… The main points of the plan were: (1) to determine the total length of the Earth's meridian by a new survey, and to choose 1/40,000,000 of that length as the unit of length, which we would call the meter, and (2) to consider the volume of a cube with sides that are 1/10 of a meter long, determine the mass of distilled water that would occupy this volume at the temperature at which ice melts, and choose this as the unit of mass, which we would call the grave (later the kilogram). The survey for (1) was carried out from Barcelona, Spain, just east of Paris to Dunkirk on the Dover coast, and the surveyors, JBJ Delambre and PF A Méchain, who were in charge of the survey, spent more than six years from 1792 to complete it, even though they were troubled by the turmoil of the revolutionary period. Meanwhile, experiments for (2) were started in 1892 by chemist AL Lavoisier and progressed steadily with the cooperation of crystallographer RJ Haüy, but were interrupted in 1894 when Lavoisier was executed. Two years later, they were resumed by L. Lefèvre-Gineau and JV Fabbroni, who agreed to use the mass unit "at the temperature at which the density of water is at its maximum" rather than "at the temperature at which ice melts," and to change the name from graves to kilograms, concluding in 1899. *Some of the terminology used in reference to "Méchain, PFA" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… 構想の要点は,(1)地球子午線の全長を新たな測量によって確定し,その長さの1/40000000を長さの単位に選び,それをメートルと呼ぶこと,(2)メートルの1/10に相当する長さを1辺とする立方体の体積を考え,氷が融解する温度においてこの体積を占める蒸留水の質量を確定し,それを質量の単位に選び,グラーブ(のちにキログラム)と呼ぶことの二つであった。(1)のための測量は,スペインのバルセロナからパリの東をかすめてドーバー岸のダンケルクまでについて実行され,担当者ドランブルJ.B.J.DelambreとメシャンP.F.A.Méchainは,革命期の騒乱に悩まされながら1792年から6年余を費やしてこれを完遂した。一方,(2)のための実験は化学者A.L.ラボアジエを中心として92年に開始され,結晶学者アユイR.J.Haüyの協力下で着々と進められたが,ラボアジエが処刑された94年に中断され,2年後ルフェーブル・ジノーL.Lefèvre‐GineauとファブローニJ.V.Fabbroniの手で再開されて,〈氷が融解する温度において〉ではなく〈水の密度が極大となる温度において〉の質量を単位に選ぶことや,名称をグラーブからキログラムに改めることを承認して99年終結した。… ※「Méchain,P.F.A.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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