June 15, 2017
Items from the National Archives
From the Catalog of the National Archives
On the Polishing of the Spheres
An account (or a proposal) for handling the large stone spheres "so frequently remarked on of late". It seems to involve pairs of workers polishing the objects, searching for cracks.
On the Economix of an Unified Callistan Weights and Measures, Fortunes Found Rather Than Lost and the Advantages of Simplicity in Trade and Commercial Enterprize
Some historians regard this scholarly paper as the origin of the plan for the first national census.