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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Report upon weights and measures.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04045 Author/Creator: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Book signed Date: 1821 Pagination: Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy

An attempt to synthesize history, philosophy and physics into a coherent whole that illuminates the nature of human relations. Recommends the adoption of the metric system, as a blessing that will lead to "the improvement of the physical, moral and intellectual condition of man upon earth," by making stronger the "links of sympathy between the inhabitants of the most distant regions." Points to international suppression of the slave trade as a precedent for an international effort to standardize weights and measures. First edition. Inscribed by Adams to diplomat and politician Jonathan Russell. With the bookplate of Mary Rivers, and the ex libris of Russell and his wife, Lydia. Published as Secretary of State and prepared "in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third March, 1817."

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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