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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 Cover Image Book Book
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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

Vekerdy, Lilla, (editor.). Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, (issuing body.).

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  • ISBN: 1935623834 (print : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781935623830 (print : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xi, 87 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015.

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"Convened at the Smithsonian Libraries on March 4-5, 2010."
Shipping list no.: 2016-0048-P.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 Verkerdy ; The history of the Resident Scholar Program at the Smithsonian libraries / Lilla Verkerdy ; Using 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.

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