Speaking of the metric system reform, Arthur must thank the French Ambassador Talleyrand, who is currently still in London keen on playing cards and golf, because the current metric system used by France was proposed for improvement by him in 1790.
As for the task of improving the metric system, it naturally fell upon the French Academy of Sciences, or more precisely, upon the head of Lavoisier, who got beheaded during the Great Revolution.
Although British society is not interested in the metric system devised by the French, at least in the British scientific community, natural philosophy researchers are quite willing to align with this metric system. Because British scientists believe that the metric system very much meets the scientific development needs.
Arthur is naturally one of the natural philosophy researchers advocating adapting to the metric system, but he's not doing it for the sake of science promotion, rather simply wanting to easily buy peaches like today.
