Yankee Science in the Making: Science and Engineering in New England from Colonial Times to the Civil War - Softcover
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Thoughtful, readable survey explores "flowering" of science in New England from Colonial times to the Civil War. Describes contributions of scientists Benjamin Franklin and Eli Whitney, engineers George Washington Whistler and Cyrus Field, naturalists Gray, Agassiz, and Dana; medical accomplishments of Holmes, Morton and Jarvis, beginnings of Darwinism, much more.
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Subtitled Science and engineering in New England from Colonial times to the Civil War . This edition is an unabridged, slightly enlarged republication of the revised edition first published by Collier in 1962. The original edition was published by Little, Brown in 1948. For the Dover edition the author has added a new postscript and supplementary b
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