Scientific Societies in the United StatesColumbia University Press, 1958 - 297 pages Looks at scientific societies in the United States such as the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Institute, and others including municipal societies for their pursuits of many scientific branches from anthropology to zoology. |
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Page 28
... became restive of the shackles and conventions of tastes imported from abroad . Poets and prose writers began creating a distinctively American litera- ture ; language became more distinctively American at the hands of the lexicographer ...
... became restive of the shackles and conventions of tastes imported from abroad . Poets and prose writers began creating a distinctively American litera- ture ; language became more distinctively American at the hands of the lexicographer ...
Page 87
... became a center of physics research . Among the students trained there , who became especially distinguished in physics , were E. H. Hall , J. S. Ames , and A. L. Kimball . H. A. Rowland and S. P. Langley at the close of the nineteenth ...
... became a center of physics research . Among the students trained there , who became especially distinguished in physics , were E. H. Hall , J. S. Ames , and A. L. Kimball . H. A. Rowland and S. P. Langley at the close of the nineteenth ...
Page 141
... became rapidly subdivided into subfields . Edward B. Titchener and E. G. Boring were leading experimentalists . Leonard T. Troland attempted a philosophical interpretation of the mind . Rudolf Pintner , L. M. Terman , E. L. Thorndike ...
... became rapidly subdivided into subfields . Edward B. Titchener and E. G. Boring were leading experimentalists . Leonard T. Troland attempted a philosophical interpretation of the mind . Rudolf Pintner , L. M. Terman , E. L. Thorndike ...
Contents
Scientific Societies in Eighteenth Century America | 1 |
National Growth 18001865 | 28 |
The Triumph of Specialization 18661918 | 85 |
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