The Metric System, Considered with Reference to Its Introduction Into the United States: Embracing the Reports of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, and the Lecture of Sir John Herschel |
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| Title | The Metric System, Considered with Reference to Its Introduction Into the United States: Embracing the Reports of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, and the Lecture of Sir John Herschel |
| Author | Charles Davies |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes and Company, 1871 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Aug 2007 |
| ISBN | 0608428191, 9780608428192 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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