El Diccionario militar de Federico Moretti y su apéndice metrológico: sobre el análisis de la nomenclatura del sistema métrico decimal

Abstract

Knowledge of any scientific discipline is inconceivable without the task of collecting lexicographical materials, useful for the historical study of the various terminologies. In the case of the metric system, at the begining of the nineteenth century, the Diccionario militar español-francés (1828) became of utmost importance. Our aim is to review this lexicographical repertoire and to describe the attached Appendix, which contains the Manual alfabético razonado de las monedas, pesos y medidas de todos los tiempos y países, con sus reducciones a las equivalencias españolas y francesas, prepared by Moretti. This lexicographic appendix, in which are collected the units for measurement, is one of the first testimonies in the Spanish nomenclature about the Decimal System of Measurement.