The Metric System of Weights and Measures
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781402198120
Subjects: Weights,Measures,mathematics,Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard,The Metric System of Weights and Measures,The Metric System; Mathematics / Arithmetic; Mathematics / General
First sentence: No cause, since the earliest organization of civilized society, has contributed more largely to embarrass business transactions among men, especially by interfering with the facility of commercial exchanges between different countries, or between different provinces, cities, or even individual citizens of the same country, than the endless diversity of instrumentalities employed for the purpose of determining the quantities of exchangeable commodities.