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Excerpt from The Metric and British Systems of Weights, Measures, and Coinage
In order to make it of more general application, especially in schools and polytechnics, a chapter upon specific gravities has been added, and also upon the use of the balance, as this should simplify the teaching of the subject to large classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
