Author: Hindle, Brooke Title: The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America 1735-1789
Description: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1956. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. (1956). Octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 410pp. with index and bibliographical notes. Frontispiece and 22 black and white illustrations on 8 pages following page 194. Near very good in fair to good jacket. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg, Virginia. Demonstrates the interdependence of social change and scientific advance. Good +/good.
Keywords: Science; Natural History; American Philosophical Society; John Bartram; Benjamin Franklin; David Rittenhouse; John Winthrop; Thomas Jefferson; Cadwallader Colden; Peter Kalm; Charles Thompson
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 13069
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