Talk:myria-

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About myria/myrio: the article currently [1] says "Based on a proposal by Thomas Young, some early 19th century publications used myrio- as a synonym", without context. However, this puristic spelling was mainly limited to English. It might be useful to add that Young was a dreaded opponent of the metric system in England, that he ridiculed the French neologisms, and that the metric system had no legal status in England at that time. The system was legalised in 1864 by the Metric Weights and Measures Act, which introduced a single legal spelling in English, myria. The expression "proposal by Thomas Young" somewhat suggests that Young invented the alternative spelling myrio. However, Prieur explained in 1795 [2] that the prefix myria derived from myrioi, but that after careful consideration the spelling myria was chosen. It is a neologism, not subject to puristic conventions. The French law of 1795 that introduced the metric system in France introduced a single legal spelling: myria. Ceinturion (talk) 17:07, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Brewster 1830 text?

Matthiaspaul, yesterday you added a link to Brewster-1830 which does not show any text, in contrast to Brewster-1832. In wikipedia, a reference behind a statement has to support that statement. Did you actually read Brewster-1830 because it is in your library, or not? Ceinturion (talk) 10:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I did (not in my library, but in the scanned version). The reference, however, mixed up the volume. It is in volume 13 of the 1830 edition, and in volume 12 of the 1832 edition. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 14:46, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

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