A Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science by Cathryn J. Prince

A Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science

Cathryn J. Prince

254 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Based on original source documents and interviews, Prince tells the story of Benjamin Silliman, arguably America's first scientist, pitting him against no less an adversary than Thomas Jefferson when science on this continent was still in its infa...

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