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Alexander Dallas Bache : Scientist and Educator, 1806-1867 / Merle M. Odgers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: PENNSYLVANIA LIVESPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1947Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512805178
  • 9781512805185
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 925
LOC classification:
  • Q143.B2
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- I. FRANKLIN'S MOST FAMOUS SCION -- II. WEST POINT AND THE ARMY -- III. A PROFESSORSHIP AT TWENTY-TWO -- IV. A SCHOOL IN THE MAKING: GIRARD COLLEGE -- V. "MEN AND..." -- VI. '...THINGS" -- VII. AN ENVOY'S REPORT -- VIII. THE PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL -- IX. EARLY RESEARCH -- X. MAGNETISM -- XI. A FIRST CAREER ENDS -- XII. THE COAST SURVEY -- XIII. SERVICES TO THE NATION -- XIV. MAN OF SCIENCE -- XV. THE CHIEF -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- INDEX
Summary: This is the biography of a man who made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U.S. Coast Survey. Alexander Dallas Bache was appointed superintendent in 1843, and the Survey increased its scope and improved its methods in the study of winds, tides, currents, and harbors under his charge
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- I. FRANKLIN'S MOST FAMOUS SCION -- II. WEST POINT AND THE ARMY -- III. A PROFESSORSHIP AT TWENTY-TWO -- IV. A SCHOOL IN THE MAKING: GIRARD COLLEGE -- V. "MEN AND..." -- VI. '...THINGS" -- VII. AN ENVOY'S REPORT -- VIII. THE PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL -- IX. EARLY RESEARCH -- X. MAGNETISM -- XI. A FIRST CAREER ENDS -- XII. THE COAST SURVEY -- XIII. SERVICES TO THE NATION -- XIV. MAN OF SCIENCE -- XV. THE CHIEF -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- INDEX

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This is the biography of a man who made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U.S. Coast Survey. Alexander Dallas Bache was appointed superintendent in 1843, and the Survey increased its scope and improved its methods in the study of winds, tides, currents, and harbors under his charge

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In English.

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