The enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden empire, science, and the making of intellectual culture in British New York
"Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Ithaca ; London
Cornell University Press
[2016]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"... |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 243 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780801448034 |