Famous American Men of Science

Famous American Men of Science
Author: James Gerald Crowther
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1969
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The scientific work and lives of Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry, Josiah Willard Gibbs and Thomas Alva Edison.

Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz
Author: Christoph Irmscher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547577672

A provocative new life restoring Agassiz--America's most famous natural scientist of the 19th century, inventor of the Ice Age, stubborn anti-Darwinist--to his glorious, troubling place in science and culture.

Nature

Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1911
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Science

Science
Author: John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 1900
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science

Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science
Author: Hugh Richard Slotten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1994-06-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521433952

In this book Hugh Richard Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus is on the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache - great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged "chief" of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache played a central role in the organization and management of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences. But his dominance in these institutions was made possible through his control of an organization less well known today, the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867. Under Bache's command the Coast Survey became the central scientific institution in antebellum America. Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important historiographic themes. We gain a better understanding of the particular style of nineteenth-century American science by examining the role of the Coast Survey as a source of patronage. Perhaps most important, this study explores the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice are embedded within local contexts. Although Bache sought to use the Coast Survey to raise the status of American science partly by emulating European scientific elites, his efforts also reflected the cultural and political values of antebellum America. Slotten thus analyzes the interrelationship between political culture, patterns of patronage, and the institutional practice of science in the United States.