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Title 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.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015.

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 Axe Archives Fed Docs  SI 1.60:EX 7    ---  Available
Description xi, 87 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Series A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.
Note "Convened at the Smithsonian Libraries on March 4-5, 2010."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
Subject Science -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Science -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Science -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Technology -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Technology -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Technology -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Congresses.
Dibner Library.
Added Author Vekerdy, Lilla, editor.
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, issuing body.
ISBN 9781935623830 (print : alk. paper)
1935623834 (print : alk. paper)
9781935623847 (online)
Gpo Item No. 0910-A-14
Sudoc No. SI 1.60:EX 7

 
    
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