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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and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle.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.
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Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Steven Turner |
Publisher |
: Smithsonian Institution |
Release |
: 2020-11-03 |
File |
: 305 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781588346902 |
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Genre |
: Chemistry |
Author |
: James Smithson |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1879 |
File |
: 168 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112106576652 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: William J. Rhees |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Release |
: 2023-10-05 |
File |
: 170 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783368629779 |
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Genre |
: |
Author |
: J. Smithson |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1881 |
File |
: 830 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BSB:BSB11546807 |
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: |
Author |
: William Jones Rhees |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1881 |
File |
: 838 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000092154636 |
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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.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Steven Turner |
Publisher |
: Smithsonian Institution |
Release |
: 2020-11-03 |
File |
: 305 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781588346933 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Heather Ewing |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Release |
: 2010-12-15 |
File |
: 577 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781408820759 |
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Ernest Ingersoll |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1878 |
File |
: 422 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:32044102965480 |
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Genre |
: Catalogs, Subject |
Author |
: Princeton University. Library |
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: |
Release |
: 1884 |
File |
: 930 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:32044080251549 |
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Genre |
: Great Britain |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1898 |
File |
: 504 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:B2985171 |