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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 relation to the emergence of European scientific mineralogy, this book is an essential resource for mineralogical, American history, and history of science scholarship.
Price: $34.99
Pages: 110
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
01 January 1978
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9781422375044
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SCIENCE / History
"[E]minent historians of science have collaborated in this monograph ... This very well organized monograph is beautifully printed and pleasant to read, with a comprehensive index which adds to its value. It is obviously based on thorough, extensive, and expert research. It is an important and useful study..."
— George W. White
"It is an impressive compilation of the detailed development of mineralogy in the United States between 1780 and 1822. There is no other single source in which the relationships of these men, these societies, these journals, schools and publications, are analysed. It is an indispensable resource of an understanding of American science in those early years..."
— Cecil J. Schneer
— George W. White
"It is an impressive compilation of the detailed development of mineralogy in the United States between 1780 and 1822. There is no other single source in which the relationships of these men, these societies, these journals, schools and publications, are analysed. It is an indispensable resource of an understanding of American science in those early years..."
— Cecil J. Schneer
John C. Greene (1917—2008) was an influential and renowned historian of science with specialties in American history of science and history of evolutionary thought. A recipient of the History of Science Society's George Sarton Medal in 2002, his publications include The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought (1959) and The Science of Minerals in the Age of Jefferson (1978).