| Description |
xl, 600 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits, diagrams ; 22 cm |
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Group portrait on lining-paper. |
| Bibliography |
"Source and reference material": pages 555-571. |
| Contents |
Bring the Seeds of Science to America / THOMAS HARRIOT -- The First Fruit of American Science / BENJAMIN FRANKLIN -- Science Faces the Tumult of the American Revolution / BENJAMIN THOMPSON -- Science Advances Slowly in the Newborn Republic / THOMAS COOPER -- American Science Ventures Out Across New Frontiers / CONSTANTINE SAMUEL RAFINESQUE -- Science Caught in the First Uprush of an Industrial Revolution / THOMAS SAY -- America Makes Medical History / WILLIAM T. G. MORTON -- United States Government Establishes a New Incubator for Science / JOSEPH HENRY -- America Contributes to the Science of the Sea / MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY -- The Repercussions of Darwinism in the United States / LOUIS J. R. AGASSIZ -- Federal and State Surveys Aid the Advances of Science / JAMES DWIGHT DANA -- Dinosaurs and other Fossils of Our Gilded Age / OTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH -- America in the New World of Chemistry / J. WILLARD GIBBS -- American Science Gives Men Wings / SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY -- America Participates in the Revolution of Modern Physics / ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON -- American Science Comes of Age / THOMAS HUNT MORGAN -- American Science Pioneers in Two New Related Fields / HERBERT McLEAN EVANS -- Giant Instruments and Huge Foundations for American Science / EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE -- The Turn of the Tide in World Science / ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE -- FUTURE OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA. |
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Scientists -- United States.
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Scientists. |
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United States. |
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Science -- United States -- History.
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Science. |
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History. |
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