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