Gentlemen scientists and revolutionaries : the founding fathers in the age of enlightenment
2014
509.73 S524 2014
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Title
Gentlemen scientists and revolutionaries : the founding fathers in the age of enlightenment
Variant Title
Founding fathers in the age of enlightenment
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description
xvii, 254 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
509.73 S524 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)869437526
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.
Contents: Childhoods of the founding fathers -- Variola in Boston, 1721-1722 -- Godfathers of American science -- The bolt from the blue -- Tracking the heavens from the colonies -- "Expressions of the American mind" -- "This most dangerous enemy" -- Seeking a technological edge -- Science resurfaces -- Mid-course corrections -- Patents, innovations, and first steps -- The science-minded presidency -- Epilogue : the interweaving.
L2016M52
Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated by math, used scientific analogies and scientific thinking in their political writing, and fell in love with technologies. They conceived of the United States of America as a grand "experiment" in the scientific meaning of the word. George Washington's embrace of an experimental vaccination for smallpox saved the American army in 1777. He was also considered the most scientific farmer in the country. John Adams founded a scientific society and wrote public support of science into the Massachusetts constitution. The president of another scientific society, Thomas Jefferson, convinced its leading lights to train Meriwether Lewis for the Lewis and Clark expedition; his Declaration of Independence was so suffused with scientific thinking that it was called Newtonian. Benjamin Franklin's fame as an "electrician" gave him the status to persuade France to help America win the revolutionary war. The author provides the full story of how the intellectual excitement of scientific discoveries had a powerful influence on America's Founding Fathers.
Contents: Childhoods of the founding fathers -- Variola in Boston, 1721-1722 -- Godfathers of American science -- The bolt from the blue -- Tracking the heavens from the colonies -- "Expressions of the American mind" -- "This most dangerous enemy" -- Seeking a technological edge -- Science resurfaces -- Mid-course corrections -- Patents, innovations, and first steps -- The science-minded presidency -- Epilogue : the interweaving.
L2016M52
Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated by math, used scientific analogies and scientific thinking in their political writing, and fell in love with technologies. They conceived of the United States of America as a grand "experiment" in the scientific meaning of the word. George Washington's embrace of an experimental vaccination for smallpox saved the American army in 1777. He was also considered the most scientific farmer in the country. John Adams founded a scientific society and wrote public support of science into the Massachusetts constitution. The president of another scientific society, Thomas Jefferson, convinced its leading lights to train Meriwether Lewis for the Lewis and Clark expedition; his Declaration of Independence was so suffused with scientific thinking that it was called Newtonian. Benjamin Franklin's fame as an "electrician" gave him the status to persuade France to help America win the revolutionary war. The author provides the full story of how the intellectual excitement of scientific discoveries had a powerful influence on America's Founding Fathers.
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