Science and Society in Early America

Name: Science and Society in Early America
Author: Randolph S. Klein
ISBN: 9780871691668

Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 166)

Edited by Randolph S. Klein

The American Philosophical Society Press Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society

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Published: 1986-01-01

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These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell’s interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio.; Benjamin Franklin,”The Old England Man” by Esmond Wright; Frustration & Benjamin Franklin’s Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd; William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot; The Men of ‘68: Graduates of Amer’s. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein; The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “Learned Engineer,” The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II; The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang; Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran; The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle; A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan; Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass; & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.

Randolph S. Klein's publications include Portrait of an Early American Family: The Shippens of Pennsylvania (1975) and Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell (1986).

"[T]his is an outstanding festschrift. The format is handsome and the presentations are of a high caliber. Congratulations to all on a job well done."—Philip Cash, Journal of the History of Medicine

"[T]his attractive and well-produced collection of essays-issued on the occasion of Whitfield Bell's retirement as executive officer of the American Philosophical Society-is a very laudable production. It amply fulfills its purpose as a testimonial to a member of that pioneering generation that laid the foundations for the present flourishing condition of the history of science as both professional occupation and intellectual discipline."—Simon Baatz, Isis

"Containing as it does a varied group of well written, carefully researched, and useful articles, the volume forms a fitting tribute to Bell's multifaceted career."—John B. Blake, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"[C]arefully edited and exquisitely produced."—Eric H. Christianson, Quarterly Review of Biology

"Fortunately, the society has seen fit to honor its former chief with a volume of essays, written by a dozen authors long familiar with Bell and the institution he served so faithfully and well... these essays are a fitting tribute to Whitfield Bell. Like his own writings, they are informative, wide-ranging, well researched, and well written."—John C. Greene, Technology and Culture