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Benjamin Silliman : A Life in the Young Republic / Chandos Michael Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 992Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 1990Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (394 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400860227
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509.24
LOC classification:
  • Q143.S56 -- B76 1989eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- I. 1796 Indigo Connecticut -- II. 1797-1801 Within the Walls of Yalensia -- III . 1801-1802 The Hindu Philosopher -- IV. 1802-1805 The Acquisition of Science -- V. 1805-1806 Pilgrimage -- VI. 1806-1809 Civic Man -- VII. 1809-1817 Magnum donum Dei -- VIII. 1812-1820 An American Klaproth -- IX. 1815-1820 Envoy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtuosi of the Early Republic and a founder of the American scientific community. This absorbing biography is not only a study of the youth and early career of a complex and remarkable man but also a window on his times. In lively and often moving detail, Chandos Michael Brown opens the broad context of Silliman's life in his native Connecticut. From Silliman's father's disastrous captivity among the British during the Revolution to the intensities of New England religious revivals, from the international celebrity of the Weston Meteor to the economic hazards of introducing artificial mineral waters to the New York market, here is an engaging portrayal of the growth of an American scientist within his rich cultural setting. Brown tells how the young Silliman confronted the declining fortunes of his distinguished family and how he strove to invent a new career worthy of his ambition and social standing. He describes Silliman's education at Yale College and in Philadelphia, his European tour, and his subsequent activities as a professor of chemistry and mineralogy, founder of the Yale Medical School, and editor of the American Journal of Science. Throughout this cultural biography, Silliman appears as the concerned member of an often troubled family--a man who nonetheless managed to achieve that elusive quality, greatly admired by his contemporaries, that of the representative American.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- I. 1796 Indigo Connecticut -- II. 1797-1801 Within the Walls of Yalensia -- III . 1801-1802 The Hindu Philosopher -- IV. 1802-1805 The Acquisition of Science -- V. 1805-1806 Pilgrimage -- VI. 1806-1809 Civic Man -- VII. 1809-1817 Magnum donum Dei -- VIII. 1812-1820 An American Klaproth -- IX. 1815-1820 Envoy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtuosi of the Early Republic and a founder of the American scientific community. This absorbing biography is not only a study of the youth and early career of a complex and remarkable man but also a window on his times. In lively and often moving detail, Chandos Michael Brown opens the broad context of Silliman's life in his native Connecticut. From Silliman's father's disastrous captivity among the British during the Revolution to the intensities of New England religious revivals, from the international celebrity of the Weston Meteor to the economic hazards of introducing artificial mineral waters to the New York market, here is an engaging portrayal of the growth of an American scientist within his rich cultural setting. Brown tells how the young Silliman confronted the declining fortunes of his distinguished family and how he strove to invent a new career worthy of his ambition and social standing. He describes Silliman's education at Yale College and in Philadelphia, his European tour, and his subsequent activities as a professor of chemistry and mineralogy, founder of the Yale Medical School, and editor of the American Journal of Science. Throughout this cultural biography, Silliman appears as the concerned member of an often troubled family--a man who nonetheless managed to achieve that elusive quality, greatly admired by his contemporaries, that of the representative American.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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