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Author : Joseph Henry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1847-December 1849: The Smithsonian Years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1847-December 1849, the Smithsonian years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1850-December 1853 : the Smithsonian years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1854-December 1857 : the Smithsonian years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1858-December 1865, The Smithsonian Years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1866-May 1878, the Smithsonian years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine A. Nichols
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800730535
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Exchanging Objects written by Catherine A. Nichols and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying objects in museums, and suggests that a deeper understanding of past museum practice can inform mission-driven contemporary museum work.
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher : George Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: Cumulative index written by Joseph Henry and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book PAPERS OF JOSEPH HENRY V8 written by Joseph Henry and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1999-01-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a fascinating view of an increasingly confident public figure who worked unstintingly to gain international acknowledgement of American scientific achievement but also popular support for research in a wide array of disciplines.
Author : Carin Berkowitz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982757
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Science Museums in Transition written by Carin Berkowitz and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public—was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum's walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.
Author : Sara J. Grossman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027037
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Immeasurable Weather written by Sara J. Grossman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the foundations of a white patriarchal settler society. Grossman outlines the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science, from the nineteenth-century public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers and the automation of weather data during the Dust Bowl to the role of meteorological satellites in data science’s integration into the militarized state. Throughout, Grossman shows that weather science reproduced the natural world as something to be measured, owned, and exploited. This data gathering, she contends, gave coherence to a national weather project and to a notion of the nation itself, demonstrating that weather science’s impact cannot be reduced to a set of quantifiable phenomena.
Author : Ephraim G. Squier
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345238
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley written by Ephraim G. Squier and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley remains today not only a key document in the history of American archaeology but also the primary source of information on hundreds of mounds and earthworks in the eastern United States, most of which have now vanished. Despite adhering to the popular assumption that the moundbuilders could not have been the ancestors of the supposedly savage Native American groups still living in the region, the authors set high standards for their time. Their work provides insight into some of the conceptual, methodological, and substantive issues that archaeologists still confront. Long out of print, this 150th anniversary edition includes David J. Meltzer's lively introduction, which describes the controversies surrounding the book’s original publication, from a bitter, decades-long feud between Squier and Davis to widespread debates about the links between race, religion, and human origins. Complete with a new index and bibliography, and illustrated with the original maps, plates, and engravings, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley provides a new generation with a first-hand view of this pioneer era in American archaeology.
Author : Jeremy Vetter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548756
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Knowing Global Environments written by Jeremy Vetter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology. Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate, biodiversity, oceans, and more. Contributors to Knowing Global Environments reveal how the field sciences have interacted with practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators.
Author : David Pantalony
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048128161
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Altered Sensations written by David Pantalony and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris. Beginning his career as a violin maker, in 1858 the young Prussian immigrant shifted his talents towards the growing field of acoustics. Altered Sensations is a portrait of his vibrant atelier, a place of construction, commerce and experiment. For over forty years it was also a popular meeting place for scientists, artisans, musicians and teachers. Using archival and collection research from across North American and Europe, David Pantalony has traced the material and social influences of this space on the development of modern acoustics. In particular, he has detailed the manner in which Koenig modified, extended, spread and challenged Hermann von Helmholtz's Sensations of Tone. A large part of the research on Koenig comes from the actual products of his workshop which survive in museums and collections around the world. The second section of Altered Sensations provides a Catalogue Raisonné of Koenig’s entire line of instruments, including their history, details from specific examples, locations, and references in the literature. This catalogue will serve as a practical guide for curators and researchers as well as a comprehensive overview of nineteenth-century acoustical practice.
Author : Thomas M. F. Gerry
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648894453
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives written by Thomas M. F. Gerry and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives' provides readers with opportunities to reconnect with the origins of thought in an astonishingly wide variety of areas: politics, economics, art, spirituality, gender relations, medicine, literature, philosophy, music, and so on. As the chapters in the book show, Classical Greek thought still informs much of contemporary culture. There are countless books and articles that deal with ancient Greece historically, and a similar number that focus on Greece as a contemporary travel destination. There is both a lot of interest in Greece as a place now, and in Greece’s history and culture, which formed the early origins of much of Western civilisation. The distinctive attraction of 'Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives' is that it brings together, by means of fascinating examples, the two areas of interest: Greece’s past in relation to its, and our, present. In addition to the general interest factor, the book suggests questions for re-examination: the individual chapters provide abundant original research on their subjects, and in most cases offer critiques on the assumptions about, and the interpretations of, Greece’s ancient and contemporary cultural practices. These challenges themselves stimulate far-reaching thought and discussion, a feature highly attractive to readers (and students) wishing to develop a more in-depth understanding of the legacies of ancient Greece.
