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2 unusual facts about Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor


Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor

Grosvenor described a method in a pamphlet titled The circle squared a method for determining the area of a circle squared that as a result gave a value for π (Pi) that was 3.142135… (Pi is 3.14159…).

In 1840 he attended the Anti-Slavery Convention in London where he was included in the commemorative painting by Benjamin Haydon.


New-York Central College, McGrawville

New-York Central College, McGrawville was an institution of higher learning founded by Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor and other anti-slavery Baptists in 1849 in McGraw, New York.


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