Online Book Subjects: Weights and measures Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 Instruction sur les mesures déduites de la grandeur de la terre France. Commission temporaire des poids & mesures républicaines; Haüy, René Just; France. Convention nationale. De l'Imprimerie de Saphoux an 2 [i.e. 1793 or 1794] This is the first edition of the official manual of the metric system and the first description of the system as it exists today. The measure of the world Alder, Ken Smithsonian Institution Libraries c2003