"...useful to researchers in the history of science and in early American history." --ARBA

Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Fr

Organized primarily in terms of genre, this handbook includes original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout coloni

The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The dagu

First published in 1996. The intention of this volume is two-fold: first, to give a chronologically arranged overview of selected data on the history of science