Author: Salem AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Salem Athenaeum
Author: Salem AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Salem Athenaeum, with the by-laws and regulations
Author: Athenæum (SALEM, Massachusetts)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Salem Imprints, 1768-1825
Author: Harriet Silvester TapleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
American Library Book Catalogues, 1801-1875
Author: Robert SingermanPublisher: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library & Information Science
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum, in Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Salem AthenaeumOccasional Papers
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins ThorntonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Salem Athenaeum, in Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Salem AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum in Salem, Massachusetts, with the By-Laws and Regulations
Author: Athenæum (SALEM, Massachusetts)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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