Science and Society in Early America
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Science and Society in Early America

Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 166)

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Science and Society in Early America

Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 166)

About this book

These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell's interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio.; Benjamin Franklin,"The Old England Man" by Esmond Wright; Frustration & Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd; William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot; The Men of '68: Graduates of Amer's. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein; The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II; The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang; Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran; The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle; A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan; Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass; & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Remarks
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Biographical Sketch of Whitfield J . Bell, J r . with Selected Bibliography
  5. Introduction
  6. Contributors
  7. Benjamin Franklin: "The Old England Man"
  8. Frustration and Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books
  9. William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758
  10. The Men of'68: Graduates of America's First Medical School
  11. "That Awfull Stage" (The Search for the State House Yard Observatory)
  12. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The American Philosophical Society, and the Promotion of Useful Knowledge and Works, 1798-1809
  13. Consensus and Conflict About Imprisonment: The Philadelphia Society For Alleviating The Miseries OfPublic Prisons, 1787-1829
  14. Cotton Textiles and Industrialism
  15. The American Industrial Revolution Through Its Survivals
  16. One Professor's Chief Joy: A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton
  17. Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the American Philosophical Society During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  18. Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in America
  19. Index