Science in Nineteenth-Century America
Subtitle: A Documentary History
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780226709475
Subjects: History Of Science; Science; Science/Mathematics; USA; History; Science / History; 19th century; United States
First sentence: In 1857 a seventy-eight-year-old gentleman in New Haven, only a few years in retirement from his post at Yale College, started work on an autobiography whose title was consonant with the spirit and style of his age: "Origin and Progress in Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Yale College and in other places, with personal reminiscences."