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

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

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

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