Decimal Metric System in Pará, Brazil

• Main Author: Patrícia de Campos Corrêa
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal do Pará 2015-06-01
• Series: Amazônia
• Subjects: sistema métrico; escolas paraenses; Belle Époque
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/revistaamazonia/article/view/2439

The metric systems used daily, in contemporary times do not remember the problems caused during its creation and implementation in France as well as Brazil. This article aims to show how this knowledge was widespread in Pará in the Belle Époque context. The system was implemented legally in Brazil by D. Pedro II who promulgated the Imperial Law n. 1 157/1862. Thus the system become official as standard measures and compulsory education in schools also determined ten years for the permanent abandonment other kind of measures. It was part of civilizing process of modernization as a consequence of scientific rationality, the countries industrialization and the market. The metric system was introduced in Pará by curricular and teaching programs required  practical classes of measure, intuitive method in schools of all education levels: primary, secondary and vocational courses according the society needs during latex.