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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Greene, John C. American science in the age of Jefferson. Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1984 (OCoLC)755255500 |
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| Named Person: | Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John C Greene |
| ISBN: | 081380101X 9780813801018 0813801028 9780813801025 |
| OCLC Number: | 9557778 |
| Description: | xiv, 484 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The American context -- 2. The Philadelphia pattern -- 3. Scientific centers in New England -- 4. Science along the Hudson -- 5. Outposts of science in the south and west -- 6. From Newton to Laplace in American astronomy -- 7. The chemical revolution comes to America -- 8. American geography -- 9. From the theory of the earth to earth science -- 10. Natural history in the new world: botany -- 11. Natural history in the new world: zoology and paleontology -- 12. The sciences of man: physical anthropology -- 13. The sciences of man: archaeology -- 14. The sciences of man: comparative linguistics and the problem of Indian origins -- 15. The end of the Jeffersonian era. |
| Responsibility: | John C. Greene. |
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