Download or read book Benjamin Silliman Jr and John Torrey Correspondence 1843 1859 written by Benjamin Silliman and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silliman Family Correspondence written by Benjamin Silliman and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection consists of eleven handwritten, signed letters, nine sent to Benjamin Silliman, Sr.; one to Silliman, Jr.; and one written by Silliman, Sr. The correspondents are geologists, paleontologists or other scientists; the letters are primarily concerned with topics such as geology, meteorites and fossils, while personal matters are mentioned in closing. Details of the letters are as follows: A. Sent to Silliman, Sr. 1. From W.B. Rogers at the Univ. of Va., one letter, May 17, 1839, discussing his Geological reports and other geological subjects; Rogers also mentions seeing "your son." 2. From J.C. Poggendorf in Berlin, one letter, Aug. 15, 1839, but written as two separate documents, in German and English respectively, requesting issues of AJS he has not received and responding to Silliman's request for issues of Poggendorf's journal on physics. 3. From Charles Daubeny at Oxford [England], one letter, Feb. 19, 1840, enclosing his "little chemical book ... which has just appeared," and mentioning that it is a supplement. (Daubeny's Supplement to the Introduction to the atomic theory (1831) was published in 1840.) 4. From [Sir] Richard Owen in London, two letters, Mar. 16, 1843, and Dec. 6, 1848, concerning Ornithichnites, fossil footprints found in the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts and first examined by James Deane and Edward Hitchcock in 1836; and Dinornis, the extinct moa of New Zealand. Of Ornithichnites Owen says, "It is important to remember that these were reptiles." In the 1848 letter, Owen thanks Silliman for the "good wishes of your accomplished son" and also mentions "your friend Mr. Dana" (James Dwight Dana, Silliman Sr.'s son-in-law). 5. From D.D. Owen [New Harmony, Ind.], one letter, Aug. 28, 1845, addressed to "Professor Silliman," sending payment for a subscription to "your journal," apparently through a kind of money order, which "will be more acceptable than enclosing a Western [dollar sign]5 bill." Owen says he will send his continuation of the Review of the N.Y. [Geological] Reports (published in 1844). 6. From James Deane in Greenfield [Mass.], one letter, Jan. 11, 1847, discussing the identification of fossil birds by comparison with modern species. The letter contains two cut-and-pasted pieces, one an excerpt of an article by Deane discussing the foot of Ardea cinerea, the gray heron; the other a drawing of the foot. 7. From Wilhelm Haidinger in Vienna, one letter, July 3, 1861, primarily about recent occurrences of meteorites from locations around the world. Haidinger also refers to the U.S. Civil War, hoping that "ultimate victory" will go to the "Northern States and with true humanity and benevolence." B. From Silliman, Sr., one letter, Feb. 20, 1851, to John Taylor, a Liverpool merchant, an acquaintance from Silliman's first visit to England in 1805. Silliman discusses his plans for his upcoming European trip in which he will be accompanied by his son and other family members and friends. He refers to a protracted illness he and his wife suffered, leading to her death. C. Sent to Silliman, Jr. From Joseph Henry at the Smithsonian Institution, one letter, July 12, 1857, discussing Silliman's planned lecture series on geology that he will give "during the next session of Congress." Henry adds that "your father" has also given a course on geology there.
Download or read book Benjamin Silliman Jr and John Torrey Correspondence written by Benjamin Silliman and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Benjamin Silliman, Jr. to John Torrey, dated 1843-1859, discussing various bits of business associated with the publication of the American Journal of Science and Arts; a possible lawsuit Silliman faces in 1856; and the disposition of some items from Silliman's cabinet, which he hopes to send to Columbia College.
Download or read book Benjamin Silliman written by Chandos Michael Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtuosi of the Early Republic and a founder of the American scientific community. This absorbing biography is not only a study of the youth and early career of a complex and remarkable man but also a window on his times. In lively and often moving detail, Chandos Michael Brown opens the broad context of Silliman's life in his native Connecticut. From Silliman's father's disastrous captivity among the British during the Revolution to the intensities of New England religious revivals, from the international celebrity of the Weston Meteor to the economic hazards of introducing artificial mineral waters to the New York market, here is an engaging portrayal of the growth of an American scientist within his rich cultural setting. Brown tells how the young Silliman confronted the declining fortunes of his distinguished family and how he strove to invent a new career worthy of his ambition and social standing. He describes Silliman's education at Yale College and in Philadelphia, his European tour, and his subsequent activities as a professor of chemistry and mineralogy, founder of the Yale Medical School, and editor of the American Journal of Science. Throughout this cultural biography, Silliman appears as the concerned member of an often troubled family--a man who nonetheless managed to achieve that elusive quality, greatly admired by his contemporaries, that of the representative American. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America written by Julius H. Rubin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair, feeling forsaken by God. Ironically, those most devoted to fostering the soul's maturation neglected the well-being of the psyche. Drawing upon many sources, including unpublished diaries and case studies of patients treated in nineteenth-century asylums, Julius Rubin's fascinating study thoroughly explores religious melancholy--as a distinctive stance toward life, a grieving over the loss of God's love, and an obsession and psychopathology associated with the spiritual itinerary of conversion. The varieties of this spiritual sickness include sinners who would fast unto death ("evangelical anorexia nervosa"), religious suicides, and those obsessed with unpardonable sin. From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, among those who directed the course of evangelical religion and of their followers, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the experience of self and identity for those who sought rebirth as children of God.
Download or read book Life of B Silliman Chiefly from His Manuscript Reminiscences Diaries and Correspondence written by George Park FISHER and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Protestant Temperament written by Philip J. Greven, Jr. and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family writing of the 17th and 18th centuries—Philip Greven, the distinguished scholar of colonial history explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared, and the Protestant temperament shaped, in America. Through this cache of remarkable and remarkably immediate and moving material – the family papers of some of America’s most famous theologians, political figures, lawyers, and ministers as well as those of lesser-known contemporaries (farmers, merchants, housewives) who embodied Protestant life and wrote about it most expressively—Philip Greven traces the hidden continuities of religious experience, of attitudes toward God, children, the will, the body, sexuality, achievement, pleasure, virtue, and selfhood among the three Protestant groups of the time. He examines, in turn, the three strains that persisted regardless of denomination. First, the “evangelicals” (their dictum for raising children: “Break their wills that you may save their souls”), ruled by a hostility to the self, a feeling that selfhood is the source of sin, too dangerous to be sought or desired (Jonathan Edwards wrote: “I have been before God and have given myself, all that I am, and have, to God; so that I am not, in any respect, my own . . . I have given myself clear away”). And we hear the products of this upbringing, in their twenties and thirties, speaking of themselves in the harshest tones (“My affections carnal, corrupt, and disordered”), distrusting themselves in the most profound ways (a woman faced with the choice of a husband wrote: “I dare not decide myself and dread nothing more than to be left to the Bent of my own heart”). In counterpoint, we see the “moderates,” poised between duty and personal desire, preoccupied but not obsessed with morality, more interested in self-control than self-suppression (an eminent Unitarian, the Reverend Theodore Parker of Boston, wrote: “The will needs regulation, not destroying. I should as soon think of breaking the legs of a horse in training him, as a child’s will”). And, finally, we see the “genteel” in polite society, taking their state of grace for granted, more interested in self-assertion than self-control, completely at ease with ambition and worldliness—music, dancing, games, convivial drinking, hunting, and sports all an integral part of the children’s lives as they grow into maturity; the boys groomed for social responsibility, the girls encouraged to be “steady, studious, docile, with a mild and winning presence, a sweet, obliging temper . . . ” The Protestant Temperament uncovers the personal experience and the psychological and social effects of religion and piety in the American of the 17th and 18th centuries, the feelings as well as the beliefs of religious people. Fascinating and groundbreaking in its revelations and its radical reassessment of the role of religion in early American life, Philip Greven’s book is a major intellectual event, an important and illuminating interpretation of the American Protestant experience.
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Download or read book A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology written by Colleen Wickey and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough inventory of research resources in American repositories, the Guide lists collections in the history of chemistry and chemical engineering, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and a number of related chemical process industries and businesses, from personal and professional papers of chemical scientists and engineers to business records of the chemical process industries.
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Download or read book The Way of Duty written by Joy Day Buel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the skills of a gifted writer and a scholar's grasp of early America, The Way of Duty draws readers into a vividly evoked world.
Download or read book Siblings written by C. Dallett Hemphill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Hemphill demonstrates, siblings function across all races as humanity's shock-absorbers as well as valued kin and keepers of memory.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 25 includes letters from 1877, the year in which Darwin published Forms of Flowers and with his son Francis carried out experiments on plant movement and bloom on plants. Darwin was awarded an honorary LL.D. by Cambridge University, and appeared in person to receive it. The volume contains a number of appendixes, including two on the albums of photograph sent to Darwin by his Dutch, German, and Austrian admirers.
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Download or read book Life of Benjamin Silliman M D LL D Late Professor of Chemistry Mineralogy and Geology in Yale College written by George Park Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
