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A century of science in America

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A century of science in America

Edward Salisbury Dana

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For a hundred years the American Journal of Science charted a young nation's discoveries, and this volume tells the story from 1818 onward. Edward Dana and colleagues survey a century of geology, chemistry, and natural history, with portraits of the founders who built American science. A centennial record of curiosity turned into knowledge. The making of a scientific nation.

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137 chapters

  1. 1A CENTURY OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 1818–1918
  2. 2PREFATORY NOTE
  3. 3TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4PORTRAITS
  5. 5I THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FROM 1818 TO 1918
  6. 6Introduction.
  7. 7Scientific Periodical Literature in 1818.
  8. 8Early Scientific Journals.
  9. 9The Founder of the American Journal of Science.
  10. 10The Early Years of the Journal.
  11. 11“PLAN OF THE WORK.
  12. 12The Close of the First Series.
  13. 13The Second, Third and Fourth Series.
  14. 14Present and Future Conditions.
  15. 15Notes.
  16. 16II A CENTURY OF GEOLOGY.—THE PROGRESS OF HISTORICAL GEOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA
  17. 17Introduction.
  18. 18The Rise of Geology in Europe.

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