Download or read book Benjamin Silliman and John Torrey Correspondence 1819 1848 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 Benjamin Silliman and John Torrey Correspondence written by Benjamin Silliman and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Benjamin Silliman to John Torrey, dated 1819-1848, primarily discussing issues related to the production of Silliman's American Journal of Science and Arts. Through the years Silliman's letters also frequently touch on chemistry and mineralogy, and the activities of mutual friends and acquaintances. He makes frequent references people not readily identified, such as "Dr. Me.," "Mr. Camman and his ores" (possibly Albert Cammann), "Mr. Barnes" (possibly D.H. Barnes), "Dr. Smith," "Mr. Bowen," "Lane" (possibly Ephraim Lane), "Dr. Johnson," and "Dr. McMurtine."
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Download or read book A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society written by American Philosophical Society and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Guide to the archives and manuscript collections of the American Philosophical Society. 1966.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Schweinitz and Torrey written by Lewis David von Schweinitz and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Patronage Practice and the Culture of American Science written by Hugh Richard Slotten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Hugh Richard Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus is on the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache - great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged "chief" of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache played a central role in the organization and management of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences. But his dominance in these institutions was made possible through his control of an organization less well known today, the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867. Under Bache's command the Coast Survey became the central scientific institution in antebellum America. Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important historiographic themes. We gain a better understanding of the particular style of nineteenth-century American science by examining the role of the Coast Survey as a source of patronage. Perhaps most important, this study explores the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice are embedded within local contexts. Although Bache sought to use the Coast Survey to raise the status of American science partly by emulating European scientific elites, his efforts also reflected the cultural and political values of antebellum America. Slotten thus analyzes the interrelationship between political culture, patterns of patronage, and the institutional practice of science in the United States.
Download or read book Catalog of the Manuscript and Archival Collections and Index to the Correspondence of John Torrey written by New York Botanical Garden. Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Grammar of the Machine written by Edward Stevens and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the American economy moved toward a manufacturing base and mass production, creating a demand for a literacy that encompassed not only the traditional alphabetic form of expression but also scientific and mathematical notation and spatial and graphic representation. How did the world of learning respond to this demand? What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns of instruction emerged? Edward Stevens, Jr., describes the important technological changes that took place in antebellum America and the challenges they posed for education. Investigating the instruction, curricula, and textbooks used in the common schools, in the mechanics' institutes, and, specifically, at the Troy Female Seminary and the Rensselaer School in upstate New York, he demonstrates how advocates of technical literacy attempted to teach new skills. Stevens shows that the tensions between the liberal and the vocational, between a culture of print and a nonverbal culture of experience, persisted in technical education through the first half of the nineteenth century but were resolved temporarily by a common moral vision.
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.
Download or read book The Growth of the American Thought written by Merle Eugene Curti and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a pioneer achievement upon its original publi-cation and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944, The Growth of American Thought has won appreciative reviews and earned the highest regard among historians of the national experience. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought.
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