Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Title Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences PDF eBook
Author American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Pages 474
Release 1848
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Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Title Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences PDF eBook
Author American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Pages 392
Release 1861
Genre Science
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Vol. 11, pt. 1, "Centennial volume," includes full list of officers and members of the academy, 1780-1881.

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1857, Vol. 6

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1857, Vol. 6
Title Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1857, Vol. 6 PDF eBook
Author American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
Publisher Forgotten Books
Pages 530
Release 2018-09-03
Genre Science
ISBN 9780366549788

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1857, Vol. 6: Part I On the Practicability of Constructing Cannon of Great Caliber, capable of enduring continued Use under full Charges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Title Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society PDF eBook
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Pages 780
Release 1854
Genre Learned institutions and societies
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 7, 1858-1861)

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 7, 1858-1861)
Title Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 7, 1858-1861) PDF eBook
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Publisher American Philosophical Society
Pages 832
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
Title Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge PDF eBook
Author American Philosophical Society
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Pages 420
Release 1859
Genre Electronic journals
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Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz
Title Louis Agassiz PDF eBook
Author Christoph Irmscher
Publisher HMH
Pages 453
Release 2013-02-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0547568924

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“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books