Science and society in early America : essays in honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
1986
509.7 S416 1986 M MB
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Title
Science and society in early America : essays in honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Published
[Philadelphia] : American Philosophical Society, 1986.
Description
426 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
509.7 S416 1986 M MB
System Control No.
(OCoLC)14078580
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Benjamin Franklin : "the old England man" / Esmond Wright -- Frustration and Benjamin Franklin's medical books / Edwin Wolf 2nd -- William Byrd reports on his mission to the Cherokee in 1758 -- W.W. Abbot -- The men of '68 : graduates of America's first medical school / Randolph Shipley Klein -- "That awfull stage" (the search for the State House Yard Observatory) / Silvio A. Bedini -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "learned engineer," the American Philosophical Society, and the promotion of useful knowledge and works, 1798-1809 / Edward C. Carter II -- Consensus and conflict about imprisonment : the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons, 1787-1829 / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Cotton textiles and industrialism / Thomas C. Cochran -- The American industrial revolution through its survivals / Brooke Hindle -- One professor's chief joy : a catalog of books belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton / Joseph Ewan -- Foreign membership of biological scientists in the American Philosophical Society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Bentley Glass -- Louis Agassiz as an early embryologist in America / Jane M. Oppenheimer.
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Contents: Benjamin Franklin : "the old England man" / Esmond Wright -- Frustration and Benjamin Franklin's medical books / Edwin Wolf 2nd -- William Byrd reports on his mission to the Cherokee in 1758 -- W.W. Abbot -- The men of '68 : graduates of America's first medical school / Randolph Shipley Klein -- "That awfull stage" (the search for the State House Yard Observatory) / Silvio A. Bedini -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "learned engineer," the American Philosophical Society, and the promotion of useful knowledge and works, 1798-1809 / Edward C. Carter II -- Consensus and conflict about imprisonment : the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons, 1787-1829 / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Cotton textiles and industrialism / Thomas C. Cochran -- The American industrial revolution through its survivals / Brooke Hindle -- One professor's chief joy : a catalog of books belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton / Joseph Ewan -- Foreign membership of biological scientists in the American Philosophical Society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Bentley Glass -- Louis Agassiz as an early embryologist in America / Jane M. Oppenheimer.
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