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Author : Brendan January
Release : 1999
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 251/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science in Colonial America by : Brendan January
Download or read book Science in Colonial America written by Brendan January. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the scientific contributions made by people in colonial America, including natural history, medicine, astronomy, and electricity.
Author : Raymond Phineas Stearns
Release : 1970
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science in the British Colonies of America by : Raymond Phineas Stearns
Download or read book Science in the British Colonies of America written by Raymond Phineas Stearns. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Burns
Release : 2005-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 60X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science and Technology in Colonial America by : William E. Burns
Download or read book Science and Technology in Colonial America written by William E. Burns. This book was released on 2005-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy—what we call science—such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all aspects of how science and technology impacted the everyday life of Americans of all classes and cultures. Science and Technology in Everyday Life in Colonial America covers a wide range of topics that will interest students of American history and the history of science and technology: * Domestic technology—how colonial women devised new strategies for day-to-day survival * Agricultural—how Native Americans and African slaves influenced the development of a American system of agriculture * War—how the frequent battles during the colonial period changed how industry made consumer goods This volume includes myriad examples of the impact science and technology had on the lives of individual who lived in the New World.
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Release : 2011-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 402/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cold, Hard Facts about Science and Medicine in Colonial America by : Elizabeth Raum
Download or read book The Cold, Hard Facts about Science and Medicine in Colonial America written by Elizabeth Raum. This book was released on 2011-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes life in the American colonies, focusing on beliefs related to science and medicine"--
Author : Sarah Rivett
Release : 2012-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 705/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England by : Sarah Rivett
Download or read book The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England written by Sarah Rivett. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and dying women as a source of material insight into the divine. Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the divine. In this way, the "science of the soul" was as much a part of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the unity of religion and science in the early modern world and highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic circuits of knowledge formation.
