Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science : Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521433959
ISBN-13
9780521433952
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 24th, 1994
Print length
244 Pages
Weight
522 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
AnthropologyHistory of science
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An analysis of Alexander Dallas Bache, 'chief' of the nineteenth-century scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century.
In this text, Dr Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus of the book is an analysis of the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged 'chief' of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache became the most important leader of the scientific community through his control of the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867. Under Bache's command the Coast Survey became the central scientific institution in antebellum America. Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important themes in the history of science in the United States.
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