Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian
Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science edited by Russell Lawson, M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 509 L44R
This three volumes set presents scientific biographies, topics and inventions from fourteen different branches of science. A handful of primary source documents conclude each section.
Read about Weather in Early America, John Josselyn’s Description of Seventeenth-Century Fauna, Psychoanalysis in America, Count Rumford and/or browse the entry on New Hampshire’s own Mary Baker Eddy and her connection to Medicine & Health.
Helpful for: Science, Humanities IV, Ecology
Photo credit:
Count von Rumford, Benjamin Thompson. Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical. 2 vols. Boston: Manning & Loring, 1799. Thomas Jefferson’s Library. Lib. of Congress. 17 Apr. 2009 <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jefflib.html>.
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