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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden : Empire, Science, and 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"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Dixon, John M., 1970- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Description
Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781501703515