A scientist in American life : essays and lectures of Joseph Henry / edited by Arthur P. Molella ... [and others] ; foreword by Lewis Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.

Contributor:

Molella, Arthur P., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.

Henry, Joseph.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 136 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.

Contents:

On theory and practice (1832).

Review of the "Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Hall Sherwood ..." (1838).

Geology and revelation (early 1840's).

Thoughts on architecture (ca. 1849).

Address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1850).

On the Crystal Palace Exhibition (ca. 1851).

Closing address before the Metropolitan Mechanics' Institute (1853).

The philosophy of education (1854).

The philosophy of inductive science (1866).

On the importance of the cultivation of science: letter to the Committee of Arrangements of the Farewell Banquet to Professor Tyndall (1873).

Remarks at the laying of the cornerstone of the American Museum of Natural History (1874).

Remarks at the grave of Joseph Priestley (1874).

Presidential address to the National Academy of Sciences (1876).

ISBN:

0874746418

OCLC:

6555021