Science in America : historical selections / Edited by John C. Burnham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnham, John C. (John Chynoweth), 1929-2017, compiler.

Contributor:

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--United States--History.

Science.

United States.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Thackray, Arnold M. (bookplate) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

x, 495 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

Contents:

The beginnings of American science

A Puritan and pioneer reports to English scientists / John Winthrop, Jr.

Gentlemen carry out exotic experimental zoology in a new world community / Captain Hall

A merchant produces first-rate science in a Philadelphia garden / James Logan

A great mind turns uplifting entertainment into theoretical innovation / Benjamin Franklin

A well-read physician's facts and fancies as respectable science / Hugh Williamson

A political conservative discredits Enlightenment science / David Daggett

A French emigre surveys the legacy of Enlightenment enthusiasm and achievement / Felix Pascals

The nineteenth century

The president of a scientific institution surveys the study of natural history / James E. DeKay

A religiously orthodox lawyer defends science and material progress / Timothy Walker

A distinguished physiological theorist attacks new applications of chemistry / Charles Caldwell

A logical scientific society receives the world's first description of the gorilla / Thomas S. Savage and Jeffries Wyman

A botanist introduces Darwin's theory of the origin of species / Asa Gray

An orthodox zoologist attacks Darwin on religious and scientific grounds / Louis Agassiz

A young physicist surveys science as it existed in one year / John Trowbridge

A physician explores the physical correlates of human thinking / Oliver Wendell Holmes

An astronomer bemoans the condition of the exact sciences in America / Simon Newcomb

A chemist suggests that science in unraveling the riddle of life / Ira Remsen

A teacher blames higher education for the backwardness of American science / F.W. Clarke

A scientific administrator asserts the adequancy of positivistic science / J.W. Powell

The early twentieth century: prestige and maturity

A physicist describes science and his faith in its goodness / Arthur Gordon Webster

A biologist offers a mechanistic explanation of life and ethics / Jacques Loeb

A psychologist suggests breeding better people on the basis of the science of genetics / Edward L. Thorndike

A physicist describes the mobilization of scientists in World War I / Robert A. Millikan

A Protestant biologist defends Darwin and science from a new attack / Edward L. Rice

A theologian says science fails to produce creativity and well-being / John Wright Buckham

A physicist embraces uncertainty and finds a new vision of science / P.W. Bridgman

A biologist reviews and contributions of Thomas Hunt Morgan to genetics / Fernandus Payne

The middle of the twentieth century: big science

An astronomer discusses his science and the need for cooperative research / Otto Struve

A conservative scientist finds himself in a world unfriendly to science / William James Lyons

Two nuclear scientists try to influence who controls atomic energy / H.H. Goldsmith and E. Rabinowitch

A scientific leader assesses the uncertain future of postwar American science / Frank B. Jewett

A technical editor details the efforts of the scientific establishment to discredit a writer / Ralph E. Juergens

A geneticist explores the possibilities for controlling life / T.M. Sonneborn

A science writer inquires into the place of scientists in public life / Donald W. Cox

A physicist suggests that scientific technology can solve many social problems / Alvin M. Weinberg

The President's science adviser talks to physicists about research / Donald F. Hornig

Nobel Prize winner doubts that scientific discovery can be directed / Charles H. Townes

Three ecologists suggest criteria for an optimum human environment / Hugu H. Iltis, Orie L. Loucks, and Peter Andrews.

Notes:

Copyright ©1971 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc."--verso of title page.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

0030852889

OCLC:

143990