The era of experiments and the age of wonder : scientific expansion from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries : proceedings of the symposium in honor of the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program /
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,
2015.
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| ISBN: | 9781935623830 (print : alk. paper) 1935623834 (print : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- About Smithsonian libraries
- Preface / Nancy E. Gwinn
- Scientific expansion in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Romantic science : on writing the age of wonder / Richard Holmes ; Learned societies and the birth of American science / Marc Rothenberg ; Agents of exchange : origins of scholarly communication in nineteenth-century America / Nancy E. Gwinn
- The Dibner Library as scholarly resource. Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology / Lilla Vekerdy ; The history of the Resident Scholar Program at the Smithsonian libraries / Lilla Vekerdy ; Sharing mathematical treasures from the Dibner Library / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell ; Bern Dibner's way of collecting and its importance for scholars / Pamela O. Long ; Utilizing Dibner resources at the National Air and Space Museum / David Devorkin
- The case of the "forgotten" telescope / Steven C. Turner.