Title: The Pursuit of knowledge in the early American Republic :
Authors: Brown, Sanborn C.; Oleson, Alexandra,; Chandler, Alfred D.; Brown, Sanborn C.; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Date: 1976
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Physical description: xxv, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: The learned society in American intellectual life / John Voss -- To build a new intellectual order / Alexandra Oleson -- Science, learning, and utility: patterns of organization in the early American republic / John C. Greene -- The national pattern of American learned societies, 1769-1863 / A. Hunter Dupree -- Definitions and speculations: the professionalization of science in America in the nineteenth century / Nathan Reingold -- The Royal Society in America / George F. Frick -- The underside of the learned society in New York, 1754-1854 / Brooke Hindle -- Shaping a provincial learned society: the early history of the Albany Institute / James M. Hobbins -- Early learned societies in Boston and vicinity / Walter Muir Whitehill -- The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1850 / Patsy A. Gerstner -- Science, technology, and the Franklin Institute / Bruce Sinclair -- The growth of learned and scientific societies in the southeastern United States to 1860 / Joseph Ewan -- The Western Academy of Natural Science of Cincinnati and the structure of science in the Ohio Valley, 1810-1850 / Henry D. Shapiro -- The nature of humanistic societies in early America / Marcus A. McCorison -- Medicine and the learned societies in the United States, 1660-1850 / James H. Cassedy -- The organization of agricultural improvement in the United States, 1785-1865 / Margaret W. Rossiter -- Savants and professionals: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-1860 / Sally gregory Kohlstedt -- The early development of scientific societies in Canada / Peter J. Bowler -- Commentary: an historian of education looks at the Newagen Study / Richard J. Storr -- Early American learned societies as informants on our past: some conclusions and suggestions for further research / Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz.
Notes: Papers from a five-day workshop held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Cape Newagen, Me., June 1973. Issued with various printing dates.
Subject headings (LCSH): Learned institutions and societies--United States--History--Congresses.