Biography of self-taught men
Subtitle: with an introductory essay
By: by B.B. Edwards ...
Contributors: Bulfinch, S. G. 1809-1870.
Publisher: J.E. Tilton and company
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 642
Subjects: Biography.
Notes: Prepared in part and edited by Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch.
Table of contents: value: Introductory essay.- Roger Sherman.- Christian Gottlob Heyne (of Gottingen)- William Whipple.- Alexander Murray.- Stephen Hopkins.- Professor Lee.- William Gifford.- Thomas Baldwin.- David Rittenhouse.- Samuel Huntington.- William Edwards.- Thomas Scott.- Lott Cary.- John Opie.- Nathaniel Smith.- John Godfrey von Herder.- Giovanni Battista Belzoni.- William Caxton.-Richard Baxter.-Arthur Young.- Charles G. Haines.- Carsten Niebuhr.- Jonas King.- Humphrey Davy.-Adam Clarke.; value: Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson) - Nathaniel Bowditch.- James Cook.-William Falconer.- John Hunter.- Nathan Smith.- James Ferguson.- James Watt.-Eli Whitney.- John Leyden.- Robert Stephens.; value: Henry Stephens.- Benjamin West.-Peter Horberg.- Alexander Wilson.- Robert Bloomfield.- Isaac Milner.- Sir William Jones.- Patrick Henry.