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Science of minerals in the age of jefferson
This print on demand edition of a hard-to-find publication provides an in-depth history on early American Republic mineralogy, encompassing collaborations and insights from leading scholars in history of science. Describing the early development of mineralogical studies in the United States in re...
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Menomini peyotism. with transcriptions analysis of menomini peyote music
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Freezing of supercooled water
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Monguors of the kansu-tibetan border. part ii
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Western journals of dr. george hunter, 1796-1805
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The variation in the silicate content of the water in monterey bay, california, during 1932, 1933, and 1934
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Old babylonian inscriptions chiefly from nippur
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 6, 1839
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part iv. artiodactyla
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Magnetic fever
Explores the links between science and empire in the 19th cent\ury, focusing on the mutual interactions of British imperialism and geophysical empiricism. The 19th century was a time when science was becoming global, in part due to European colonial and imperial expansion. Colonies became not jus...
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Pavia and rome
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Three revolutionary architects -- boulee, ledoux, and lequeu
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Some architects’ portraits in nineteenth-century america
This is the first study devoted to the portraits of nineteenth-century American architects. It is an examination of the way the iconography of such images changed over time to reflect the changing social status of the architect as the profession evolved during the century. Portraits in oil on can...
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Tobacco adventure to russia. enterprise, politics, and diplomacy in the quest for a northern market for english colonial tobacco, 1676-1722
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Candidates defeated in roman elections
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Contents: Abbreviations; I. Introduction; II. Candidates for the Consulship: 1. Candidates Defeated in the Elections; 2. Candidates Who Withdrew or Were Prevented From Competing; III. Candidates for the Censorship; IV. Candidates fo...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 3, 1830
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Ansley j. coale
This biography of one of the world’s foremost demographers traces in addition to Ansley Coale’s own life and work, the progress of worldwide demographic research in the 20th century. One chapter records the important work of his mentor, Frank Notestein, particularly on fertilty, and contraception...
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Mappae clavicula
This is a print on demand publication. An annotated translation based on a collation of the Selestat and Phillipps-Corning (PC) manuscripts, with a reproduction of the two manuscripts. Contents: (1) The manuscripts and their background: The Selestat manuscript; The PC manuscript; Sir Thomas Phill...
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The power of maps and the politics of borders
Includes: Unpacking the Meaning of Maps, Power, & Boundaries; The Legacy of Major Sebastian Bauman’s Map of the Siege of Yorktown; Mapping Old & New Empires in the Early U.S.; Cherokee Boundaries; Cherokee Territoriality, Anglo-Amer. Surveying, & the Creation of Borders in the Early 1...
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Ground sloth
“Megalonyx” is one of the most widely distributed taxa of ground sloths in North America. Numerous Pleistocene sites contain isolated fossil elements. However, most fossils are of late Rancholabrean age, and relatively few “Megalonyx” fossils have been found in the southeastern United States outs...
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Dictionary of the egyptian language
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Joseph nicollet and his map
A biography of Joseph Nicollet, the brave & tireless explorer in 1838 & 1839 of the great northwestern triangle between the Missouri & the upper Mississippi rivers. Author Martha Coleman Bray has founded her very readable story on Nicollet’s journals, survey documents, correspondence,...
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Perugia, 1260-1340
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Myriapoda of north america
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Construction of isobaric charts for high levels in the earth’s atmosphere and their dynamic significance
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Essays by benjamin franklin
Collected to honor the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society, this illustrated assortment explores varied topics and correspondences of Benjamin Franklin. As founder of the American Philosophical Society in 1743, Franklin was engaged in intellectual pursuits, the fruits of which...
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Alhacen's theory of visual perception (first three books of alhacen's de aspectibus), volume one--introduction and latin text
Sometime between 1028 and 1038, Ibn al-Haytham completed his monumental optical synthesis, Kitab al-Manazir ("Book of Optics"). By no later than 1200, and perhaps somewhat earlier, this treatise appeared in Latin under the title De aspectibus. In that form it was attributed to a certain "Alhacen....
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Paleocene pantodonta
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Ainu of northern japan
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Anatomy of the rat
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Edward duffield
The first comprehensive study of the life and times of colonial Philadelphia clockmaker Edward DuffieldWinner of the American Philosophical Society's John Frederick Lewis Award; The Decorative Arts Society's Charles F. Montgomery Award; and the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors' ...
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Adam hoops, thomas barclay, and the house in morrisville known as summerseat, 1764-1791
Summerseat is an 18th century Georgian manor house that was saved from dereliction and decay twice in the 20th century by the good citizens of Morrisville. Summerseat was not only the headquarters of General George Washington for a week in December 1776, but was also owned by four prominent 18th ...
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John laurance
The first substantial study of English-born New York lawyer John Laurance (1760-1810), this publication details his life and his role in the American nation's creation. It describes the middling Cornish émigré’s against-all-odds passage to Federalist America’s governing inner circle. Laurance spe...
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The past, present, and future of libraries
In October 2018, the Amer, Philosophical Soc. (APS) gathered a group of scholars, library professionals, & thought leaders to discuss the past, present, & future of the library. This also marked the 275th ann’y. of the APS, founded by Benjamin Franklin & several friends. Topics includ...
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Franks, burgundians, and aquitanians and the royal coronation ceremony in france
Deals with two unusual French “ordines” in which relevance took precedence over tradition. In both the pregnant phrase “Franks, Burgundians, & Aquitanians” appeared in the prayer following the king’s unction in the place traditionally occupied by the alien triad “Saxons, Mercians, & North...
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House of lords and ideological politics
This study of ideological politics in Victorian and Edwardian England centers on a referendal theory promoted by the great Lord Salisbury when he opposed William Gladstone’s Liberal gov’ts. It was subsequently carried forward in the form of the referendum by Salisbury’s son-in-law and ideological...
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Encyclopedic dictionary of roman law
This Dictionary: explains technical Roman legal terms, translates & elucidate those Latin words which have a specific connotation when used in a juristic context or in connection with a legal institution or question, & provides a brief picture of Roman legal institutions & sources as ...
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Florence nightingale in rome
In 1847-48 Florence Nightingale, at that time a young woman of 27 and unknown to the world, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bracebridge, who were wintering in Rome for health reasons. During that time she wrote over 50 letters to her family & friends describing the sights she had seen, the p...
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Synopsis of the extinct batrachia and reptilia of north america
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Rome and the city of god
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Contemporary japan
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Pathways into the study of ancient sciences
These essays offer a sampling of the incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise of David E. Pingree (1933-2005), Brown Univ. Professor of the History of Math. and Classics. His contributions to the history of science are immeasurable. Pingree defined science as “a systematic explanation of perc...
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Paleocene faunas of the san juan basin, new mexico
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Season of conspiracy
This volume considers the March 1560 conspiracy of Amboise and subsequent plots devised later that year to remove the young King Francis II from the sway of his chief advisors of the house of Guise and improve the legal situation of France’s Protestant movement. New and rediscovered evidence reve...
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Hydrography of monterey bay, california.thermal conditions, 1929-1933
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Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered
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Reluctant author
Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) left an abundance of manuscripts that have lacked an inventory & description. This monograph is intended to remedy that lack & perhaps contribute to a critical edition of some of his major works, especially “Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione (De uni...
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Reference grammar of classical tamil poetry (150 b.c.-pre-5th/6th century a.d.)
A reference tool for those who seek an understanding of the structure of classical Tamil poetry. This poetry reflects indigenous literary and cultural traditions of southern India, and therefore, a study of it is imperative for obtaining a balanced view of India’s past and present cultures. The l...
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Due reverence
This vol. evolved from a tiny segment of the author’s study of the Cabinet of Curiosities of the Am. Philosophical Soc. (APS). One of the divisions of this Cabinet is “Objets d’Art” and he included furniture in this division. As time passed, awareness grew of several fascinating and valuable anti...
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Monguors of the kansu-tibetan frontier
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Circling the square
Since antiquity, time in the West has been represented in circular form, the gear wheels of time churning out duration in endless years. At the time of the Spanish conquest, dials on round clock faces looked down from facades of cathedrals, their tones chiming out the hours that directed people’s...
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Pyramid of the sun at teotihuacan
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Excavations at chupicuaro, guanajuato, mexico
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Biographical memoirs of members of the american philosophical society
The distinguished chemists in this volume were all members of the APS. Their bio. memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama of 20th-cent. discoveries and develop. in the study of Chemistry and the personalities behind them. They include: Josiah Gibbs, Jacobus Van’t H...
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Studies on chromosomes and nuclear division
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A search for fluctuations in the sun's thermal radiation through their influence on terrestrial temperature
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Russian refugees in france and the united states between the world wars
This is a print on demand publication. Revolution in 1917 brutally shattered old Russia in all its aspects. Something on the order of a million & a half people consequently fled or were expelled from the territory of the former Russian Empire. This study, undertaken before the advent of glasn...
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Alexander guchkov and the end of the russian empire
This is a print on demand publication. Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (1862-1936) was one of the most engaging public personalities in the last years of the Russian Empire. This political biography of Guchkov, whose career in the national limelight -- in the legislature (the State Duma), in the war-...
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William croone, on the reason of the movement of the muscles
When William Croone published his small treatise, “De ratione motus musculorum” in 1664, it represented one of the earliest attempts to explicate muscle contraction in terms of the then current mechanical & chemical concepts. The work is significant not only because it provides an informative...
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Late permian terrestrial vertebrates, u.s.a. and u.s.s.r.
Slowly, over more than a century & a quarter, the history of Permian terrestrial vertebrates has been pieced together by discovery & study of fossil-bearing strata in all of the continents except Australia & Antarctica. The decade of the 1950s has been exciting from the standpoint of ...
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Study in the official elizabethan doctrine of the prince
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Nikolay gogol and his contemporary critics
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Bottled energy
This is a print on demand publication. The storage battery may seem to be little more than the device which starts a car, but during the hundred years of its commercial existence, it has filled many different roles. These roles have changed with the years, the technology of the storage battery ad...
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Crystals and compounds
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Exploring the borderlands
This study reproduces one “Report of Meetings” & six “Bulletins” from the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology, & Systematics. This Committee operated as an administrative unit of the National Research Council, part of the U.S. Nat. Acad. of Science. It was launched in 1...
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Gladstone-gordon correspondence, 1851-1896. selections from the private correspondence of a british prime minister and a colonial governor
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Lower palaeolithic cultures of southern and eastern asia
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James bowdoin and the patriot philosophers
A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, & the life & career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter & execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting &am...
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part ii. rodentia
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Rising people
Catalogue of a joint exhibition to celebrate the American Bicentennial, held in Philadelphia from April 28 through Nov. 1976, with materials from the collections of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and The Library Company of Philadelphia. The catalogu...
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Iron age and etruscan vases in the olcott collection at columbia university, new york
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Eucharistic presence and conversion in late thirteenth-century franciscan thought
Concentrates on a single problem in medieval theology: the relationship between Christ’s bodily presence in the Eucharist & the conversion of the Eucharistic elements, bread & wine, into Christ’s body & blood. Traces discussion of this problem in the Franciscan order during the late 1...
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Jatakastava or “praise of the buddha’s former births”
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Alhacen on image-formation and distortion in mirrors
Contents: (A) Alhacen’s Analysis of Image-Distortion in Mirrors: An Overview; The Sources for Alhacen’s Analysis and Its Reception in the Latin West; Conclusion; (B) Manuscripts and Editing; (C) Latin Text: Ch. 1; Ch. 2; Ch. 3: Analysis of Plane Mirrors: Proposition (Prop.) 1; Ch. 4: Analysis of ...
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Bourgeois democrats of weimar germany
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Revolutionary in exile
In 1794, approx. 10,000 persons emigrated from Europe, esp. England, to the U.S. Many of them played an active role in the English radical movement that developed in the French revolutionary era, and were a vital component in the emergence of the philosophy that came to be known as Jeffersonian R...
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Trukese-english dictionary, supplementary volume
This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into con...
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English presbyterians and the stuart restoration, 1648-1663
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Soviet hungarian republic and the paris peace conference
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Clarence luther herrick
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Imperial library in southern sung china. 1127-1279
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French perceptions of the early american republic, 1783-1793
Hill contends that French officials in the postwar decade had already perceived a deep-rooted Amer. indifference, even hostility, to a number of vital French nat. interests. The author examines the harsh disappointments & frustrations these officials experienced in their dealings with Amer. i...
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Parmigianino’s madonna of the long neck
This is a comprehensive overview of Parmigianino’s enigmatic painting of The Madonna of the Long Neck. It treats the subject in terms of iconography, semiotics, studio practice, and art theory. The painting is not merely an example of mannerist extravagance, but that the Virgin in her extraordin...
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Copepodologist's cabinet
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volum...
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Illumination and polarization of the sunlit sky on rayleigh scattering
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Bajo de santa fe
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Of elephants & roses
This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue...
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Flight of birds. the significant dimensions, their departure from the requirements for dimensional similarity, and the effect on flight aerodynamics of that departure
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 17, part 3, 1893
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Oxford collection of the drawings of roger de gaignieres and the royal tombs of saint-denis
In the late 17th and early 18th cent., Francois-Roger de Gaignieres (FRG) amassed an impressive collection of drawings of the tombs and other monuments of France. That collection is today divided between the Bodleian Lib. in Oxford and the Bibliotheque Nationale (BN) in Paris. Ironically, the 16 ...
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Life and letters of alexander wilson
Alexander Wilson, expatriate Scotsman, poet, & reformer, has been called “the Father of American Ornithology.” This collection of his letters, many of them new & many complete for the first time, captures a splendid & stimulating time in American history. Wilson was a confidant of Wil...
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Apprenticeship writings of frank norris 1896-1898
Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a “touchstone” figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. “McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any prev...
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North by degree
In this vol. of papers on the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century Arctic exploration, the authors have examined the social, cultural, technological, and environmental settings in which exploration endeavors were conceived, carried out, described, and understood by the public. The confere...
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Astronomy and the geophysical tradition in the united states in the 19th century
This bibliography was compiled by Frederik Nebeker, Mellon Fellow in Bibliography for 1988-89, who unearthed a wealth of material in the manuscript collections and archives of the APS documenting the life and work of 181 American scientists in the fields of astronomy and the “geophysical traditio...
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Franz boas and w. e. b. du bois at atlanta university, 1906
The papers of William Shedrick Willis (1921-1983), housed at the APS, include his drafts of the manuscript “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” They contain the fascinating story of Franz Boas’s visit to Atlanta Univ. in 1906, and more, because Willis intended the work to be a book on Boas’s work in black ant...
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Optical magic in the late renaissance
Begins with a brief account of Giambattista Della Porta’s life, a review of the genesis of De Refractione, and an examination of the textual sources on which Della Porta drew in composing the book and its analytic narrative. Explains the why and how of this edition and translation of the original...
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Russian overseas commerce with great britain during the reign of catherine ii
On the basis of newly-discovered Russian and British archival sources, Prof. Kaplan makes important scholarly contributions to 18th-cent. economic history. He demonstrates that there was not only a symbiotic economic relationship between Russia and Great Britain, but also that Russia contributed ...
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Morphology of the skull of the pelycosaurian genus dimetrodon
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Sculpture of giovanni and bartolomeo bon and their workshop
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Transfer of early industrial technologies to america
Contents: Part I: A Survey: The Transfer of Industrial Technologies to Early America; Part II: Case Studies: William Weston, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and the Philadelphia Plan for Internal Improvements; Eleuthere Irenee du Pont: “Eleve des Poudres” to American Gunpowder Manufacturer; Moncure Robin...
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