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Barck, Oscar Theodore, and Hugh Talmage Lefler. Industrial life
in the colonies. In their Colonial America. New York, Macmillan,
1958. p. 335-350. Browne, Charles A. Thomas Jefferson and the scientific trends of
his time. Chronica botanica, v. 8, summer 1964: 363-423.
Clark, Harry H. The influence of science on American ideas, from
1771-1809. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,
Arts and Letters, v. 35, 1943: 305- 349. Kilgour, Frederick G. Science in the American colonies and the
early republic, 1664-1845. Cahiers d'histoire mondiale. Journal
of world history, v. 10, no. 2, 1967: 393-415.
Subject headings under which books on science and technology in colonial America can be located in the Library's card, book, and online catalogs include the following. You may also want to use key words such as 18th century, early republic, revolutionary period, early America, colonial America, eighteenth century, etc., in conjunction with specific terms or scientific disciplines.
Bedini, Silvio A. Thinkers and tinkers: early American men
of science. New York, Scribner, 1975. 520 p. Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the founding fathers: science
in the political thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison.
New York, W. W. Norton, c1995. 368 p. Early American science. Brooke Hindle, editor. New York,
Science History Publications, 1976. 213 p.
Includes bibliographical references. Early American technology: making and doing things from the
colonial era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill,
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
c1994. 482 p. Friedenberg, Zachary B. The doctor in colonial America.
Danbury, Conn., Rutledge Books, 1998. 259 p. Greene, John C. American science in the age of Jefferson.
Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1984. 484 p. Hindle, Brooke. The pursuit of science in Revolutionary America,
1735-1789. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University
of North Carolina Press, 1956. 410 p. Stearns, Raymond Phineas. Science in the British colonies of
America. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1970. 766 p.
Struik, Dirk Jan. Yankee science in the making: science and
engineering in New England from Colonial times to the Civil War.
New York, Dover Publications, 1991. 544 p.
Bell, Whitfield J. Early American science: needs and opportunities
for study. New York, Russell & Russell, 1971, c1955. 85
p. Cohen, I. Bernard. Some early tools of American science: an
account of the early scientific instruments and mineralogical and
biological collections in Harvard University. With a foreword
by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York, Russell & Russell, 1967,
c1950. 201 p. Fortune, Brandon Brame, and Deborah J. Warner. Franklin and
his friends: portraying the man of science in eighteenth century
America. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 178 p. Hawke, David Freeman. Nuts and bolts of the past: a history
of American technology, 1776-1860. New York, Harper & Row,
c1988. 308 p. Hindle, Brooke. Technology in early America: needs and opportunities
for study. With a directory of artifact collections, by Lucius
F. Ellsworth. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early
American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University
of North Carolina Press, 1966. 145 p. Martin, Edwin Thomas. Thomas Jefferson: scientist. New
York, H. Schuman, 1952. 289 p. Regis, Pamela. Describing early America: Bartram, Jefferson,
CrŠvecoeur, and the rhetoric of natural history. DeKalb,
Northern Illinois University Press, 1992. 189 p. Rowland, K. T. Eighteenth century inventions. Newton Abbot,
David & Charles; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1974. 160 p.
Science and society in early America: essays in honor of Whitfield
J. Bell, Jr. Edited by Randolph Shipley Klein. Philadelphia,
American Philosophical Society, 1986. 426 p. (American Philosophical
Society. Memoirs, v. 166) Scientific societies in eighteenth century America. In Bates, Ralph
S. Scientific societies in the United States. 3d ed. Cambridge,
Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1965. p. 1-27. Wilbur, C. Keith. Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800. 2nd
ed. Old Saybrook, Conn., Globe Pequot Press, c1997. 88 p.
America's wooden age: aspects of its early technology.
Edited by Brooke Hindle. Tarrytown, N.Y., Sleepy Hollow Restorations,
1975. 218 p. Bedini, Silvio A. Early American scientific instruments and
their makers. Rancho Cordova, Calif., Landmark Enterprises,
c1986. 189 p. Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson and American vertebrate
paleontology. Charlottesville, Va., Commonwealth of Virginia,
Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources,
1985. 26 p. (Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. Publication,
61) Bidwell, Percy Wells, and John I. Falconer. History of agriculture
in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Clifton, N.J., A.
M. Kelley, 1973. 512 p. (Library of early American business and
industry, 59) Bishop, J. Leander. A history of American manufactures from
1608-1860. 3d ed., rev. and enl., with an introduction by Louis
M. Hacker. New York, A. M. Kelley, 1966. 3 v. (Library of early
American Business and industry, 1) Blanton, Wyndham Bolling. Medicine in Virginia in the eighteenth
century. New York, AMS Press, 1980, c1931. 449 p. Brown, M. L. Firearms in colonial America: the impact on history
and technology, 1492-1792. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1980. 450 p. Catesby, Mark. Catesby's Birds of colonial America. Edited
by Alan Feduccia. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press,
c1985. 176 p. Cowen, David L. The colonial and revolutionary heritage of
pharmacy in America. Trenton, New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association,
1976. 24 p. Duffy, John. Epidemics in colonial America. Baton Rouge,
Louisiana State University Press, 1953. 274 p. Goldenberg, Joseph A. Shipbuilding in colonial America.
Charlottesville, Published for the Mariners Museum, Newport News,
Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia, 1976. 306 p. (Mariners
Museum. Publication, no. 33) Gordon, Maurice Bear. Naval and maritime medicine during the
American Revolution. Ventnor, N.J., Ventnor Publishers, c1978.
134 p. Gray, Lewis Cecil. History of agriculture in the southern United
States to 1860. Assisted by Esther Katherine Thompson, with
an introductory note by Henry Charles Taylor. Washington, The Carnegie
Institution of Washington, 1933. 2 v. (Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Publication 430) (Contributions to American economic history, no.
7) Harvard University. The apparatus of science at Harvard, 1765-1800.
By David P. Wheatland, assisted by Barbara Carson. Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University, 1968. 203 p. Hedrich, U. P. A history of horticulture in America to 1860.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1950. 551 p. Hornberger, Theodore. Scientific thought in the American colleges,
1638-1800. New York, Octagon Books, 1968, c1946. 108 p. Mulholland, James A. A history of metals in colonial America.
University, Ala., University of Alabama Press, c1981. 215 p. Murphy, Lamar R. Enter the physician: the transformation of
domestic medicine, 1760-1860. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama
Press, c1991. 312 p. Powell, J. H. Bring out your dead: the great plague of yellow
fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Reprinted with a new introduction
by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood. Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993. 304 p. Reiss, Oscar. Medicine and the American Revolution: how diseases
and their treatments affected the colonial army. Jefferson,
N.C., McFarland & Co., c1998. 278 p. Reveal, James L. Gentle conquest: the botanical discovery of
North America with illustrations from the Library of Congress.
Washington, Starwood Pub., c1992. 160 p. Shryock, Richard Harrison. Medicine and society in America,
1660-1860. New York, New York University Press, 1960. 182 p.
Tunis, Edwin. Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American
industry. Cleveland, World Pub. Co., 1965. 159 p. Bartram, John. The correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777.
Edited by Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley. Gainesville,
University Press of Florida, c1992. 808 p. Bartram, John. John and William Bartram's America: selections
from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists. Edited with
an introduction by Helen Gere Cruickshank. Greenwich, Conn., Devin-Adair,
c1990. 418 p. Bedini, Silvio A. At the sign of the compass and quadrant:
the life and times of Anthony Lamb. Philadelphia, American
Philosophical Society, 1984. 84 p. Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson: statesman of science.
New York, Macmillan, c1990. 616 p. Beall, Otho T., and Richard H. Shryock. Cotton Mather, first
significant figure in American medicine. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins
Press, 1954. 241 p. (Publications of the Institute of the History
of Medicine. First series: Monographs, v. 5) Bell, Whitfield J. The colonial physician & other essays.
New York, Science History Publications, 1975. 229 p. Bell, Whitfield J. John Morgan, continental doctor. Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. 301 p. Betts, Edwin M., and Hazlehurst Bolton Perkins. Thomas Jefferson's
flower garden at Monticello. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged by
Peter J. Hatch. Charlottesville, Published for the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation, Inc., by the University Press of Virginia,
1986. 96 p. Cantwell, Robert. Alexander Wilson: naturalist and pioneer,
a biography. With decorations by Robert Ball. Philadelphia,
Lippincott, 1961. 318 p. Cohen, I. Bernard. Benjamin Franklin's science. Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1990. 273 p. Collinson, Peter. Brothers of the spade: correspondence of
Peter Collinson, of London, and of John Custis, of Williamsburg,
Virginia, 1734-1746. By E. G. Swem. Barre, Mass., Barre Gazette,
1957. 196 p. Dickinson, H. W. Robert Fulton, engineer and artist: his life
and works. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
333 p. Eliot, Jared. Essays upon field husbandry in New England, and
other papers, 1748- 1762. Edited by Harry J. Carman and Rexford
G. Tugwell, with a biographical sketch by Rodney H. True. New York,
AMS Press, 1967. 261 p. Estes, J. Worth. Hall Jackson and the purple foxglove: medical
practice and research in Revolutionary America, 1760-1820.
Hanover, N.H., University Press of New England, 1979. 291 p. Ferguson, Eugene S. Oliver Evans, inventive genius of the American
Industrial Revolution. Greenville, Del., Hagley Museum, c1980.
72 p. Ford, Edward. David Rittenhouse, astronomer-patriot, 1723-1796.
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946. 226 p. Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin's Experiments: an new
edition of Franklin's Experiments and observations on electricity.
Edited, with a critical and historical introduction by I. Bernard
Cohen. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1941. 453 p.
Frick, George Frederick, and Raymond Phineas Stearns. Mark
Catesby: the colonial Audubon. Urbana, University of Illinois
Press, 1961. 137 p. Goodman, Nathan Gerson. Benjamin Rush, physician and citizen,
1746-1813. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press,
1934. 421 p. Green, Constance McLaughlin. Eli Whitney and the birth of American
technology. Boston, Little, Brown, 1956. 215 p. Hall, Courtney Robert. A scientist in the early republic: Samuel
Latham Mitchell, 1764-1831. New York, Russell & Russell,
1967, c1962. 162 p. Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson's Farm book, with commentary
and relevant extracts from other writings. Edited by Edwin
Morris Betts. Princeton, Published for the American Philosophical
Society by Princeton University Press, 1953. 552 p. (Memoirs of
the American Philosophical Society, v. 35) Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson's Garden book, 1766-1824,
with relevant extracts from his other writings. Annotated by
Edwin Morris Betts. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society,
1944. 704 p. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v.
22) Kalm, Pehr. Travels into North America. Translated into
English by John Reinhold Forster. Introd. by Ralph M. Sargent. Barre,
Mass., Imprint Society, 1972. 514 p. The Life and scientific and medical career of Benjamin Waterhouse:
with some account of the introduction of vaccination in America.
I. Bernard Cohen, editor. New York, Arno Press, 1980. 2 v. Rush, Benjamin. The autobiography of Benjamin Rush; his "Travels
through life" together with his Commonplace book for 1789-1813.
Edited with introd. and notes by George W. Corner. Westport, Conn.,
Greenwood Press, 1970, c1948. 399 p. Savage, Henry, and Elizabeth J. Savage. André‚
and François André‚ Michaux. Charlottesville,
University Press of Virginia, 1986. 435 p. Slaughter, Thomas P. The natures of John and William Bartram.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 304 p. Thacher, James. American medical biography. With an new
introd. and a bibliography by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. New York, Da
Capo Press, 1967. 2 v. Warren, Edward. The life of John Warren, M.D., Surgeon-General
during the war of the revolution, first professor of anatomy and
surgery in Harvard College, president of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, etc. Boston, Noyes, Holmes and Company, 1874. 568
p. Winthrop, John. The scientific work of John Winthrop.
Michael Shute, editor. New York, Arno Press, 1980. ca 350 p. in
various pagings. Wright, Karl Eugene. "Pennsylvania medical men of the
American Revolution and era": a history of the Revolution and
era told through the lives of those who lived and made that history.
S.l., K. E. Wright, 1981. 36 p. The Arts and sciences: a sourcebook on colonial America. Edited
by Carter Smith. Brookfield, Conn., Millbrook Press, c1991. 96 p.
(American albums from the collections of the Library of Congress
Farming: copyright-free illustrations for lovers of history.
Compiled by Bobbie Kalman. New York, Crabtree Pub., c1998. 32 p.
Feldman, Eve. Benjamin Franklin, scientist and inventor.
New York, F. Watts, 1990. 64 p. Giblin, James. The mystery of the mammoth bones, and how it
was solved. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, c1999. 97 p.
January, Brendan. Science in colonial America. New York,
Franklin Watts, c1999. 64 p. Sanger, Marjory (Bartlett). Billy Bartram and his green world:
an interpretative biography. New York, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1972. 207 p. Terkel, Susan Neiburg. Colonial American medicine. New
York, Franklin Watts, c1993. 111 p. Thompson, Sylvia, and Mary Marcoux. Colonial science: studying
the colonial uses of herbs helps children link the past with the
present. Science and children, v. 33, Feb. 1996: 12-15,
35.
Brigham, David R. Public culture in the early republic: Peale's
Museum and its audience. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, c1995. 215 p. Goler, Robert I. The healing arts in early America. New
York, Fraunces Tavern Museum, c1985. 56 p. Hatch, Peter J. The fruits and fruit trees of Monticello.
Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1998. 222 p. Hood, Graham. Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia: the first
American porcelain factory, 1770-1772. Chapel Hill, Published
for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg,
Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1972. 78 p.
Quimby, Ian M. G. Apprenticeship in colonial Philadelphia.
New York, Garland Pub., 1985. 215 p. Rice, Howard C. The Rittenhouse orrery: Princeton's eighteenth-century
planetarium, 1767-1954. A commentary on an exhibition held in the
Princeton University Library. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University
Library, 1954. 88 p. Stapleton, Darwin H. The transfer of early industrial technologies
to America. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1987.
215 p. (Memoirs of the (American Philosophical Society, v. 177)
Woolf, Harry. The transits of Venus: a study of eighteenth-century
science. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1959.
258 p.
Handbook, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries containing supplementary material include: Dictionary of American biography. New York, Scribner,
1928-1958. 22 v. Dictionary of scientific biography. New York, Scribner,
1970- Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (San Marino, Calif.).
Science and the new world (1526-1800): an exhibition to illustrate
the scientific contributions of the new world and the spread of
scientific ideas in America. San Marino, Calif., 1937. 18 p.
Kelly, Howard A. A cyclopedia of American medical biography,
comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons
from 1610-1910. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1912. 2 v. Thornton, John Leonard., and R. I. J. Tully. Scientific books,
libraries and collectors: a study of bibliography and the book trade
in relation to science. 3d ed. London, Library Association,
1971. 508 p.
Agricultural history. Eighteenth-century agriculture: a symposium.
Edited by John T. Schlebecker. Davis, Calif., Agricultural History
Society, 1969. 214 p. (Agricultural history, v. 43, Jan.
1969) Farming in the new nation: interpreting American agriculture,
1790-1840. Edited by Darwin P. Kelsey. Washington, Agricultural
History Society, 1972. 239 p. Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820: a conference
held 25 & 26 May 1978. The Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Boston, The Society; Charlottesville, Distrib-uted by the University
Press of Virginia, c1980. 425 p. (Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Publications, v. 57) The Pursuit of knowledge in the early American Republic: American
scientific and learned societies from colonial times to the Civil
War. Edited by Alexandra Oleson and Sanborn C. Brown. Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1976. 372 p.
Dissertations can be located by using the following indexes located in the Library's Main Reading Room, on FirstSearch, or from the Library's web site using computers in the Library's Computer Catalog Centers. From the Public Workstation home-page, choose Electronic Resources, followed by Other Subscription Services, and scroll down to Digital Dissertations. This file includes full text of currently issued dissertations.
Ardila, Marta. Science policies in the American colonies: a
comparative study. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1992. 323 p. Condon, Adrienne. Transatlantic friends: the correspondence
of Peter Collinson (1694- 1768) and John Bartram (1699-1777).
Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1996. 215 p. Malone, Robert J. Everyday science, surveying, and politics
in the old southwest: William Dunbar and the influence of place
on natural philosophy. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1996. 347 p. Parrish, Susan S. Performances of curiosity: British and British-American
natural histories of the new world in the colonial period.
Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1998. 273 p.
Agriculture in Britain and America, 1660-1820: an annotated
bibliography of the eighteenth-century literature. Compiled
by Samuel J. Rogal. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1994. 266
p. (Bibliographies and indexes in world history, no. 23) American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Classified index
to the publications of the American Philosophical Society.
A list of papers, monographs, treatises and books published by the
Society, 1769-1940. Philadelphia, 1940. 173 p. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Library. Catalog
of manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society Library, including
the archival shelflist. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Corp.,
1970. 10 v. Current bibliography in the history of technology. 1990-
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992- Cutting, Rose Marie. John and William Bartram, William Byrd
II, and St. John de Crèvecoeur: a reference guide. Boston,
G. K. Hall, c1976. 174 p. (Reference guides in literature, no. 12)
Darton, Nelson Horatio. Catalogue and index of contributions
to North American geology, 1732-1891. New York, Arno Press,
1980. 1045 p. Erlen, Jonathon. The history of the health care sciences and
health care, 1700-1980: a selective annotated bibliography.
New York, Garland, 1984. 1028 p. (Garland reference library of the
humanities, v. 398) (Bibliographies of the history of science and
technology, v. 10) Ferguson, Eugene S. Bibliography of the history of technology.
Cambridge, Mass., Society for the History of Technology, 1968. 347
p. (Society for the History of Technology. Monograph series, v.
5) Fusonie, Alan M. Heritage of American agriculture: a bibliography
of pre-1860 imprints.. Beltsville, Md., National Agricultural
Library, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1975 1968. 347 p. (National
Agricultural Library, Library list, 98) Gephart, Ronald M. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: a bibliography.
Compiled by Ronald M. Gephart. Washington, Library of Congress;
for sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. G.P.O., 1984. 2 v. (1672 p.)
Guerra, Francisco. American medical bibliography, 1639-1783.
A chronological catalogue, and critical and bibliographical study
of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and articles in periodical publications
relating to the medical sciences--medicine, surgery, pharmacy, dentistry,
and veterinary medicine--printed in the present territory of the
United States of America during British dominion and the Revolutionary
War. New York, L. C. Harper, 1962. 885 p. (Yale University. Dept.
of the History of Science and Medicine. Publication, no. 40) ISIS cumulative bibliography: a bibliography of the history
of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65.
Edited by Magda Whitrow. London, Mansell in conjunction with the
History of Science Society, 1971-1984. 6 v. ISIS cumulative bibliography 1966-1975: a bibliography of the
history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 91-100
indexing literature published from 1965 through 1975. Edited
by John Neu. London, Mansell in conjunction with the History of
Science Society, 1980-1985. 2 v. ISIS cumulative bibliography 1976-1985: a bibliography of the
history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 101-110
indexing literature published from 1975 through 1984. Edited
by John Neu. Boston, G. K. Hall in conjunction with the History
of Science Society, c1989. 2 v. ISIS cumulative bibliography 1986-1995: a bibliography of the
history of science formed from the annual ISIS current bibliographies.
Edited by John Neu. Canton, Mass., Published for the History of
Science Society by Science History Publications, 1997. 4 v. Meisel, Max. A bibliography of American natural history: the
pioneer century, 1769- 1865. New York, Hafner Pub. Co., 1967.
3 v. National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Early American medical
imprints: a guide to works printed in the United States, 1668-1820.
By Robert B. Austin. Washington, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education
and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1961. 240 p. National union catalog of manuscript collections. 1959/61-1993.
Washington, Library of Congress. Rink, Evald. Technical Americana: a checklist of technical
publications printed before 1831. Foreword by Eugene S. Ferguson.
Sponsored by the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library. Millwood,
N.Y., Kraus International Pubs., c1981. 776 p. Romaine, Lawrence B. A guide to American trade catalogs, 1744-1900.
New York, Dover, 1990. 422 p. Schlebecker, John T. Bibliography of books and pamphlets on
the history of agriculture in the United States, 1607-1967.
Santa Barbara, Calif., American Bibliographical Center--Clio, 1969.
183 p.
Goode, George B. The beginnings of natural history in America.
Report of the United States National Museum, pt. 2, 1897:
357-406. Griffenhagen, George B. Drug supplies in the American Revolution.
Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 225,
1961: 110-133. Merrill, George P. Contributions to the history of American geology.
Report of the United States National Museum, 1904: 189-733.
Pearson, John C., ed. The fish and fisheries of colonial North
America: a documentary history of the fishery resources of the United
States and Canada. Prepared for the National Marine Fisheries
Service. Rockville, Md., The Service.; Springfield, Va., distributed
by the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce,
1972. 9 v. United States. Patent Office. Subject-matter index of patents
for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790
to 1873, inclusive. New York, Arno Press, 1976. 3 v. (1951
p.) Welsh, Peter C. United States patents 1790-1870: new uses for old
ideas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no.
241, 1966: 109-154.
Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal articles and other literature on science and technology in 18th-century America are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are: "Science--History" FirstSearch and Eureka, available on workstations in the Science Reading Room and the Computer Catalog Centers, contain additional files. Consult a reference librarian for the location of abstracting and indexing (A&I) services and computer terminals.
Journals that often contain relevant articles on science and technology in 18th-century America include the following:
Andreasen, N. J. C. Benjamin Franklin: physicus et medicus. JAMA,
journal of the American Medical Association, v. 236, July 5,
1976: 57-62. Brasch, Frederick E. John Winthrop (1714-1779), America's first
astronomer and the science of his period. Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v. 23, Aug./Oct., 1916:
154-170. Brasch, Frederick E. The Royal Society of London and its influence
upon scientific thought in the American colonies. Scientific
monthly, v. 33, Oct. 1931: 337-355; Nov. 1931: 448-469. Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Revolution: the vital interplay
of engineering and science with Government had its beginning in
war necessities. Technology review, v. 47, Apr. 1945: 367-368,
374, 376, 378. Corgan, James X. American geological education in the 18th century.
Journal of geological education, v. 35, no. 4, 1987: 184-192.
Ewing, Galen W. Early teaching of science at the College of William
and Mary in Virginia. Journal of chemical education, v.
15, Jan. 1938: 3-13. Favretti, Rudi J. Colonial gardens. Arnoldia, v. 31, July 1971:
145-171. Hornberger, Theodore. The scientific ideas of John Mitchell. Huntington
Library quarterly, v. 10, 1947: 277-296. Kilgour, Frederick G. The rise of scientific activity in colonial
New England. Yale journal of biology and medicine, v. 22,
Dec. 1949: 123-138. Kraus, Michael. American and European medicine in the eighteenth
century. Bulletin of the history of medicine, v. 8, May
1940: 679-695. Low, W. A. The farmer in post-Revolutionary Virginia, 1783-1789.
Agricultural history, v. 25, July 1951: 122-127. Manks, Dorothy S. How the nursery trade began. Plants &
gardens, v. 23, autumn 1967: 4-11. Miller, Hubert M. Mark Catesby, an eighteenth century naturalist.
Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine,
v. 29, Jan. 1948: 167-180. Mohanty, Gail Fowler. Experimentation in textile technology, 1788-1790,
and its impact on handloom weaving and weavers in Rhode Island.
Technology and culture, v. 29, Jan. 1988: 1-31. Simpson, Marcus B. The artist-naturalist John Abbot (1751-ca1840):
contributions to the ornithology of the southeastern United States.
North Carolina historical review, v. 41, July 1984: 347-390.
Stearns, Raymond S. Colonial fellows of the Royal Society of London,
1661-1788. Osiris, v. 8, 1948: 73-121. Tiggert, William D. A 1759 spotted fever epidemic in North Carolina.
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences,
v. 42, July 1987: 296-304. Walcott, Robert R. Husbandry in colonial New England. New England
quarterly, v. 9, June 1936: 218-252.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Bell, Whitfield J. The practice of medicine in colonial America. Bulletin of the history of medicine, v. 31, Sept./Oct. 1957: 442-453. Blake, John B. Early American medical literature. JAMA, journal of the American Medical Association, v. 236, July 5, 1976: 41-46. Bonta, Marcia. Birding in America ... in the18th century: long before John James Audubon brought the birds of this continent to the world, Finnish naturalist Pater Kalm wrote of America's avian treasures. Living bird, v. 18, winter 1999: 18-24. Cassedy, James H. Meteorology and medicine in colonial America: beginnings of experimental approach. Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences, v. 24, Apr. 1969: 193-204. Dibner, Bern. Benjamin Franklin, electrician: in celebration of the two hundredth year of the nation he helped found. Norwalk, Conn., Burndy Library, 1976. 48 p. (Burndy Library. Publication, no. 30) Fleming, Thomas. The Bartrams: they blazed a trail in paradise. National wildlife, v. 16, Oct./Nov. 1978: 24-31. Groffman, Sidney. The eyes of liberty: an optometric bicentennial art portfolio. Journal of the American Optometric Association, v. 47, Aug. 1976: 1017- 1040. Kastner, Joseph. Colonial botanist, self-taught, filled European
gardens with his American finds. Smithsonian, v. 8, Oct.
1977: 122-129. Spaulding, Paul P., and Adon A. Gordus. The longest battle in the war for independence: disease and medicine during the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, v. 107, Feb. 1973: 84-86, 182. Stadelman, Bonnie S. Flora and fauna versus mice and mold. William
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