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Author : Edward Marsh Gordon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Honoring James Smithson written by Edward Marsh Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jones Rhees
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book James Smithson and His Bequest written by William Jones Rhees and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Turner
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346900
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Science of James Smithson written by Steven Turner and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution. James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle. His scientific legacy was further written off as insignificant in an 1879 essay published through the Smithsonian fifty years after his death--a claim that author Steven Turner demonstrates is far from the truth. By providing scientific and intellectual context to his work, The Science of James Smithson is a comprehensive tribute to Smithson's contributions to his fields, including chemistry, mineralogy, and more. This detailed narrative illuminates Smithson and his quest for knowledge at a time when chemists still debated thing as basic as the nature of fire, and struggled to maintain their networks amid the ever-changing conditions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Heather Ewing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408820757
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Lost World of James Smithson written by Heather Ewing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.
Author : William J. Rhees
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368629735
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)
Download or read book James Smithson and his Bequest written by William J. Rhees and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Author : William Jones Rhees
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book James Smithson and His Bequest written by William Jones Rhees and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Pierpont Langley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Removal of the Remains of James Smithson written by Samuel Pierpont Langley and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Ewing
Publisher : Bloomsbury UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lost World of James Smithson written by Heather Ewing and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of James Smithson as a scientist, suspected spy, gambler, radical revolutionary, and philanthropist, telling the story of his remarkable bequest and the controversy it spawned.
Author : Nina Burleigh
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 161230849X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum written by Nina Burleigh and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian. It was one of the nineteenth century's greatest philanthropic gifts - and one of its most puzzling mysteries. In 1829, a wealthy English naturalist named James Smithson left his library, mineral collection, and entire fortune to the "United States of America, to found... an establishment for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge among men" - even though he had never visited the United States or known any Americans. In this fascinating book, Burleigh pieces together the reclusive benefactor's life, beginning with his origins as the Paris-born illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland and a wild adventuress who preserved for her son a fortune through gall and determination. The book follows Smithson through his university years and his passionate study of minerals across Europe during the chaos of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Detailed are his imprisonment - simply for being an Englishman in the wrong place - his experiences in the gambling dens of France, and his lonely and painstaking scientific pursuits. After Smithson's death, nineteenth-century American politicians were given the task of securing his half-million dollars - the equivalent today of $50 million - and then trying to determine how to increase and diffuse knowledge from the muddy, brawling new city of Washington. Burleigh discloses how Smithson's bequest was nearly lost due to fierce battles among many clashing Americans - Southern slavers, states' rights advocates, nation-builders, corrupt frontiersmen, and Anglophobes who argued over whether a gift from an Englishman should even be accepted. She also reveals the efforts of the unsung heroes, mainly former president John Quincy Adams, whose tireless efforts finally saw Smithson's curious notion realized in 1846, with a castle housing the United States' first and greatest cultural and scientific establishment.
Author : J. Smithson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Scientific writings of James Smithson written by J. Smithson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Smithson
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ISBN 13 : 9780598420534
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Writings of James Smithson written by James Smithson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jones Rhees
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340652203
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (522 download)
Download or read book James Smithson and His Bequest written by William Jones Rhees and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Smithson James
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020894961
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (949 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Writings of James Smithson written by Smithson James and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers the scientific works of James Smithson, an English chemist and mineralogist who also contributed greatly to the fields of geology and physics. Smithson is best known for bequeathing his fortune to found the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. His scientific writings cover a wide range of subjects, from crystallography to meteorology, and are marked by rigorous experimentation and a commitment to advancing knowledge through the scientific method. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William Jones Rhees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book James Smithson and His Bequest written by William Jones Rhees and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Library and Memorials
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Institution written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Library and Memorials and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on House Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilton S. Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351490745
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Stories written by Wilton S. Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadership of "Sun King" S. Dillon Ripley.Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as a great university?with museums. Although little understood by the public at large, it began as a basic research center. The Smithsonian remains a key contributor to the world of higher learning and functions diplomatically as the ministry of culture for the United States. Dillon provides backstage insights into Ripley's quest for the wholeness of knowledge. He describes how he inspired its role as a "theater of ideas as well as artifacts." Under his tutelage, the National Mall became a playground for world intelligentsia, an "intellectual free trade zone" in the shadow of the nation's political capital.Dillon reminds us that interdisciplinary, international Smithsonian symposia foreshadowed twenty-first-century issues and trends. His descriptions of the educational rewards of balancing tradition with the avant-garde are inspiring. As Dillon reminds us, Ripley's twenty-year reign may well have helped spark the waning embers of the Enlightenment.
