The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic: American Scientific and Learned Societies from Colonial Times to the Civil War

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Journal Article The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic: American Scientific and Learned Societies from Colonial Times to the Civil War. Ed. by Alexandra Oleson and Sanborn C. Brown. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. xxv + 372 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $16.50.) Get access Edward Lurie Edward Lurie University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 392–393, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900920 Published: 01 September 1979