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The era of experiments and the age of wonder : scientific expansion from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries : proceedings of the symposium in honor of the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program / edited by Lilla Vekerdy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
- A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History--17th century--Congresses.
- Science.
- Science--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Science--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Technology--History--17th century--Congresses.
- Technology.
- Technology--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Technology--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Communication in learning and scholarship--Congresses.
- Communication in learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 87 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- About Smithsonian libraries
- Preface / Nancy E. Gwinn
- Scientific expansion in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Romantic science : on writing the age of wonder / Richard Holmes ; Learned societies and the birth of American science / Marc Rothenberg ; Agents of exchange : origins of scholarly communication in nineteenth-century America / Nancy E. Gwinn
- The Dibner Library as scholarly resource. Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology / Lilla Vekerdy ; The history of the Resident Scholar Program at the Smithsonian libraries / Lilla Vekerdy ; Sharing mathematical treasures from the Dibner Library / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell ; Bern Dibner's way of collecting and its importance for scholars / Pamela O. Long ; Utilizing Dibner resources at the National Air and Space Museum / David Devorkin
- The case of the "forgotten" telescope / Steven C. Turner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Era of experiments and the age of wonder
- ISBN:
- 9781935623830
- 1935623834
- OCLC:
- 907931367
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