The History of Measurement

The old French common unit of length was the Pierre du Rauch, literally the foot of the king. So when the French Revolution came and they were getting rid of all these old systems, they were like, well, why are we going to have a unit that's based on the king's body when we're going to lob off the king's head? The revolutionaries needed that measurement. Measurements just are political and are about power for good and ill, right?Yeah, absolutely. This was something that sort of really surprised me when I looked into the deep history of this. You know, talking thousands of years ago when we know you first have the first glimmerings of what