A scientist in American life
Subtitle: essays and lectures of Joseph Henry
By: edited by Arthur P. Molella ... [et al.] ; foreword by Lewis Thomas.
Contributors: Molella, Arthur P., 1944-
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Table of contents: title: On theory and practice (1832).; title: Review of the "Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Hall Sherwood ..." (1838).; title: Geology and revelation (early 1840's).; title: Thoughts on architecture (ca. 1849).; title: Address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1850).; title: On the Crystal Palace Exhibition (ca. 1851).; title: Closing address before the Metropolitan Mechanics' Institute (1853).; title: The philosophy of education (1854).; title: The philosophy of inductive science (1866).; title: On the importance of the cultivation of science: letter to the Committee of Arrangements of the Farewell Banquet to Professor Tyndall (1873).; title: Remarks at the laying of the cornerstone of the American Museum of Natural History (1874).; title: Remarks at the grave of Joseph Priestley (1874).; title: Presidential address to the National Academy of Sciences (1876).