Autore	Jansen Axel
Edizione	[1. Aufl.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Frankfurt, [Germany] ; ; New York : , : Campus Verlag, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (357 p.)
Disciplina	306.45 509.2 973.7092
Soggetto topico	Scientists - United States History
ISBN	3-593-41046-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache; The Revised Theory of Professionalization; Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State; Approach and Methodology; Investigative Agenda; Family Background; The Franklin and Bache Families; The Dallas Family; Tertium Quid; Sophia Dallas Bache; Richard Bache's Failure; A Career in Science?; West Point; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; National Purpose; Early Research and Institutional Development; Scientist or Administrator?; Bache at the University of Pennsylvania; The Urban Setting The Franklin Institute's Raison d'ÊtreThe Report on Steam Boiler Explosions; Weights and Measures; The Debate on Meteor Showers; Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators; Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842; Girard College as a Political Symbol; The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism; Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence; More on Bache's European Tour; Central High School; Bache's Program for National Consolidation I; Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"; American Mythology Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation"This Most August Sovereign"; Elites in the American Republic; Bache's Program for National Consolidation II; The United States Coast Survey; The National Institute; Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute; European Conditions; Guarding the Palladium; American Science by an American Union; Bache's Program for National Consolidation III; The American Association for the Advancement of Science; Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President; Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854; A National Club "The Dark Prospect Appalls Me""A Victory for the Evil One"; President of an Invisible National Academy; The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences; The Timing; The Bache-Lieber Correspondence; "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions"; More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence; The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences; Conclusion; A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession; Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career; Figures; Selected Bibliography; 1. Manuscripts and Archival Material; 2. Printed Primary Sources 3. Books and ArticlesIndex
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910799293803321

Autore	Franklin Benjamin <1706-1790.>
Edizione	[Penn Reading Project ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, Pa., : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina	973.3/092 B
Altri autori (Persone)	ConnPeter J
Soggetto topico	Statesmen - United States Scientists - United States Inventors - United States Printers - United States Education - Pennsylvania
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-21059-2 9786613210593 0-8122-0011-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. The autobiography -- pt. 2. Critical essays.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457086203321

Autore	Tanford Charles <1921-2009.>
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina	539/.6/09
Soggetto topico	Molecules Scientists - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-75280-7 0-19-151303-2 1-4294-6988-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; One: Introduction; Two: Benjamin Franklin; Three: Friends and Influences; Four: The French Connection; Five: Pliny the Elder; Six: Eighteenth-Century Science; Seven: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation; Eight: How Small Is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make; Nine: One Hundred Years Later. Science Comes of Age; Ten: Lord Rayleigh; Eleven: Meticulous Miss Pockels; Twelve: Comrades in the Search. The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics; Thirteen: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation); Fourteen: In Praise of Water Fifteen: Irving Langmuir: Molecular AttitudesSixteen: Biology-Cells and Membranes; Seventeen: Ernest Overton-Gentle Genius; Eighteen: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two; Nineteen: Epilogue-The Biological Frontier; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451211603321

Autore	Gaustad Edwin S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2004]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (144 p.)
Disciplina	973.3092
Collana	Oxford Portraits
Soggetto topico	Statesmen - United States Scientists - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-803575-6 1-4237-7406-X 1-60256-781-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""CONTENTS""; ""PROLOGUE""; ""1 THE IMPROPER BOSTONIAN""; ""Hooped Petticoats and the Folly of Fashion""; ""2 B. FRANKLIN, PRINTER""; ""Franklin in Trainingâ€?for Virtue""; ""3 DOCTOR FRANKLIN""; ""Solving the Mystery of Lightning and Thunder""; ""4 PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS""; ""Can the American Colonies Possibly Unite?""; ""5 THE ROAD TO SEPARATION""; ""Franklin Tries to Sway Public Opinion in London""; ""6 WAR AND PEACE""; ""B. Franklin on J. Adams""; ""7 NEW NATION AND AGED PATRIACH""; ""Franklin Lobbies Against Slavery and the Slave Trade""; ""CHRONOLOGY""; ""FURTHER READING AND WEBSITES"" ""HISTORIC SITES""""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457515403321

Autore	Morgan Edmund S (Edmund Sears), <1916->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina	973.3/092 B
Soggetto topico	Inventors - United States Printers - United States Scientists - United States Statesmen - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-300-13022-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	An exciting world -- "A dangerous man" -- An empire of Englishmen -- Proprietary pretensions -- The importance of opinion -- Endgame -- Becoming American -- Representing a nation of states -- A difficult peace -- Going home.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454758903321