EWING, HEATHER - The lost world of James Smithson: science, revolution and the birth of the Smithsonian

Bloomsbury, 2007, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.978 0 74757 53 2.As new /No Jacket.Biography of the natural son of the Duke of Northumberland whose mother imbued in him a love of science.His hitherto mysterious early life is here revealed and dissected in considerable detail; his legacy, the Smithsonian Museum, was paradoxically the reason for the mystery, since a fire destroyed his personal archives, setting his biographer a stiff challenge.Heather Ewing has succeeded magnificently.xi, 432, (2) pp.In English.
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