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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 886261, member: 7724"]quite interesting that there is a scale in inches. </p><p>François-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) worked on the l'<i>Ornithologie</i> of Mathurin Jacques Brisson and lateron on an own work about birds. </p><p>I'd measure the pouces and have look if they correspond to the French pouces of the time, which were approximately 27 millimeters (against 25.4 for the Imperial inch) and went out of use in 1799, although still in use for a long time for bicycle tyres and airtubes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 886261, member: 7724"]quite interesting that there is a scale in inches. François-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) worked on the l'[I]Ornithologie[/I] of Mathurin Jacques Brisson and lateron on an own work about birds. I'd measure the pouces and have look if they correspond to the French pouces of the time, which were approximately 27 millimeters (against 25.4 for the Imperial inch) and went out of use in 1799, although still in use for a long time for bicycle tyres and airtubes.[/QUOTE]
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