Robert Mccracken Peck, Patricia Tyson Stroud

A Glorious Enterprise

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science
Fotograf: Purcell, Rosamond

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert McCracken Peck is Senior Fellow and Curator of Art and Artifacts at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America, A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Headhunters and Hummingbirds: An Expedition into Ecuador, and All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (with Valerie Bramwell). Patricia Tyson Stroud is an independent scholar who lives in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and East Blue Hill, Maine. She is the author of the award-winning books The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World and The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph as well as Thomas Say: New World Naturalist, all published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Rosamond Purcell has exhibited internationally, and her work has been featured in Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Slate. Her books include Swift as a Shadow: Extinction and Endangered Animals, Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things, and Illuminations: A Bestiary (with Stephen Jay Gould).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 312mm x 254mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 3175g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243802
• ISBN-10: 0812243803
• Artikelnr.: 35055414

Autorenporträt

Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. A Gathering of Gentlemen: The Founding and Early Years
Chapter 2. The Lure of the West: Exploration and Exodus
Chapter 3. A Widening Sphere
Chapter 4. The American Woodsman Comes Calling: John James Audubon and the
Academy
Chapter 5. The American Golgotha: Defining Race in the Early Republic
Chapter 6. Gorillas Grab the Limelight: Paul Du Chaillu, John Cassin, and
the Professionalization of Science
Chapter 7. The Marvelous Bipedal Masterpiece: Religion, Politics, and
Public Display
Chapter 8. Fossils, Finders, and Feuds: Leidy, Hayden, Cope, and Marsh
Chapter 9. "I Must Have Fame": Robert Peary Explores the Arctic
Chapter 10. Early Man at the Academy
Chapter 11. Volcanoes to Caverns: Exploring for Minerals
Chapter 12. Academy Expeditions, 1928 to 1960
Chapter 13. Dioramas Defy the Great Depression
Chapter 14. Science and Celebrity: The Academy Goes Hollywood
Chapter 15. Visions in Microscopes: Water Quality and the Environment
Chapter 16. Regrouping and Looking Forward in the Postwar Years
Chapter 17. Reaching Out: Festivals and Friends
Chapter 18. The Academy's "Glorious Enterprise" Completes Its Second
Century
Milestones in the Academy's History
Presidents of the Academy of Natural Sciences
Trustees of the Academy of Natural Sciences
Awards and Medals
Acknowledgments
Index