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The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
The Launching of Modern American Science 18461876 Author:Robert V. Bruce "For readers born since the 1930s, who have grown up assuming the United States leads the world in science, The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 will come as something of a shock. It shows that, little over a century ago, the American scientific community was small, mediocre, and unpromising ... [Bruce] has provided a w... more »ealth of information on the people and institutions of mid-19th-century American science."« less