Metric system of weights and measures [electronic resource] an address delivered before the convocation of the University of the state of New York, at Albany, Aug. 1, 1871

by Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

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206 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2005

About the author

American educator Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard advocated higher opportunities for women as the president from 1864 of Columbia University to 1889; people named college in his honor.

Yale University in 1828 graduated this deaf scientist.

He worked as a classical and English scholar, a mathematician, a physicist, and a chemist. He occupied the position of professor of English literature at Alabama, also of mathematics and natural philosophy from 1838 to 1848, and of chemistry and natural history from 1848 to 1854. He died in city of New York.

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