Download or read book Address Delivered Before the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists written by Benjamin Silliman and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book address delivered at the meeting of the association of the american geologists and naturalists written by henry d rogers and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Journal of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Darwin Rogers 1808 1866 written by Patsy Gerstner and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Darwin Rogers is a familiar figure in the history of American geology, especially as the director of the first state geological surveys of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Although best remembered for the survey work, Rogers considered his theory of mountain elevation to be his most important scientific legacy. Based on studies of the Appalachian Mountains, Rogers's elevation theory was the first American explanation of the dynamics of elevation. As a study of the Pennsylvania survey, this volume offers new insight into the origin and problems associated with early surveys. As a study of Rogers's life and work, it presents a portrait of a man with strong convictions and dedication and examines the development and application of his ideas.
Download or read book A Century of Science in America written by Edward Salisbury Dana and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Science in America written by Salisbury Dana John Salisbury Dana and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Science in America with Special Reference to the American Journal of Science 1818 1918 written by Various Authors and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July, 1818, one hundred years ago, the first number of the American Journal of Science and Arts was given to the public. This is the only scientific periodical in this country to maintain an uninterrupted existence since that early date, and this honor is shared with hardly more than half a dozen other independent scientific periodicals in the world at large. Similar publications of learned societies for the same period are also very few in number. It is interesting, on the occasion of this centenary, to glance back at the position of science and scientific literature in the world’s intellectual life in the early part of the nineteenth century, and to consider briefly the marvelous record of combined scientific and industrial progress of the hundred years following—subjects to be handled in detail in the succeeding chapters. It is fitting also that we should recall the man who founded the Journal, the conditions under which he worked, and the difficulties he encountered. Finally, we must review, but more briefly, the subsequent history of what has so often been called after its founder, “Silliman’s Journal.” The nineteenth century, and particularly the hundred years in which we are now interested, must always stand out in the history of the world as the period which has combined the greatest development in all departments of science with the most extraordinary industrial progress. It was not until this century that scientific investigation used to their full extent the twin methods of observation and experiment. In cases too numerous to mention they have given us first, a tentative hypothesis; then, through the testing and correcting of the hypothesis by newly acquired data, an accepted theory has been arrived at; finally, by the same means carried further has been established one of nature’s laws. Early Science.—Looking far back into the past, it seems surprising that science should have had so late a growth, but the wonderful record of man’s genius in the monuments he erected and in architectural remains shows that the working of the human mind found expression first in art and further man also turned to literature. So far as man’s thought was constructive, the early results were systems of philosophy, and explanations of the order of things as seen from within, not as shown by nature herself. We date the real beginning of science with the Greeks, but it was the century that preceded Aristotle that saw the building of the Parthenon and the sculptures of Phidias. Even the great Aristotle himself (384–322 B. C.) though he is sometimes called the “founder of natural history,” was justly accused by Lord Bacon many centuries later of having formed his theories first and then to have forced the facts to agree with them. The bringing together of facts through observation alone began, to be sure, very early, for it was the motion of the sun, moon, and stars and the relation of the earth to them that first excited interest, and, especially in the countries of the East, led to the accumulation of data as to the motion of the planets, of comets and the occurrence of eclipses. But there was no coördination of these facts and they were so involved in man’s superstition as to be of little value. In passing, however, it is worthy of mention that the Chinese astronomical data accumulated more than two thousand years before the Christian era have in trained hands yielded results of no small significance.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Interior written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual report written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of the Interior written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A List of Books on the History of Science written by John Crerar Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Geologist written by Newton Horace Winchell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Review of recent geological literature."
