The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825 Vol 4

Volume 4: Science and Technology Social Sciences Introduction Science and Technology Popular Consumption of Scientific Knowledge Isaac Greenwood, An Experimental Course of Mechanical Philosophy (1726) Ebenezer Kinnersley, A Course of Experiments, in that Curious and Entertaining Branch of Natural Philosophy, called Electricity (1764) John Winthrop, A Lecture on Earthquakes (1755) Flora and Fauna Alexander Garden, ‘The Description of a New Plant’, in Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary (1756) William Bryant, ‘Account of an Electrical Eel, or the Torpedo of Surinam’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1786) Arthur Lee, ‘Experiments on the Peruvian Bark’, Philosophical Trans[1]actions of the Royal Society of London (1809) Utilitarian Knowledge Letters and Observations on Agriculture, &c. Addressed to, or Made by the South-Carolina Society for Promoting and Improving Agriculture, and Other Rural Concerns (1788) Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, ‘Detailed Accounts, Illustrated by Correct Plans, of Various Kitchens, Public and Private’, in The Complete Works of Count Rumford (1870–5) James Finley, ‘A Description of the Patent Chain Bridge’ (1810) Medicine John Lining, A Description of the American Yellow Fever, which Pre[1]vailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the Year 1748 (1799) Benjamin Waterhouse, Kine Pox Inoculation, Rules to be Attended to during Vaccination (1809) Jacob Bigelow, American Medical Botany, being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States (1817–20) Cartography, Chemistry and Mathematics Christopher Colles, The Geographical Ledger and Systemized Atlas (1794) Robert Hare, Memoir on the Supply and Application of the Blow-Pipe (1802) Robert Adrain, ‘Research concerning the Probabilities of the Errors which Happen in Making Observation, &c.’, Analyst (1808) Social Sciences Institutional Innovation ‘Constitution of the Historical Society’; ‘Introductory Address from the Historical Society to the Public’, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1792) Roger Williams, ‘A Key into the Language of America: or An Help to the Language of the Natives, in that Part of America, Called New England’, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1794) Popular History and Historiography [Samuel Williams], ‘The History of the American Revolution’, Rural Magazine: or, Vermont Repository (1795) Samuel Miller, Sir, I have, for some months past, devoted my leisure hours to the collection of materials, with a view to writing a history of New York (1798) Hugh Williamson, A Discourse on the Benefits of Civil History (1810) Sociology and Anthropology [Samuel Williams], ‘The Improvement which the Man of Europe has received in America’, Rural Magazine: or, Vermont Repository (1795) Review of Benjamin Smith Barton, ‘New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America’, Port Folio (1812) Editorial Notes Index

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