Show ORIGIN or AN INCH the british inch haa baa its ita 0 rigin origin says john taylora high authority iii lri the measurement of the earth by the fo founder 0 of the great greata p hamid they del determined lerini hied fied with great exactness the the fhe proportion with diameter of ifa ofa a circle circie bears to folts its circumference blid hild and having ascertained the measure of the or of the earth supposing it tb be a perfect fl phere sphere they divided vi ted led the alameter diameter ai ameter into of units unit which we call inches this appears appear tobe to be the origin of our inch the diameter of th earth according 0 to o calcut calculation is emual eagal to boo of those gchea which measure so little exceeds the mean diar diameter niter of the earth according ng to lo the ancients as to require the addition add tion of only ohie ofie one thousandth pat pal patto palto to render lt atwith with all but mathebat mathe mat cal the nive five ive lve hundred in part of the earths axis of rotation fb |