The British Journal for the History of Science

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American Science

The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic: American Scientific and Learned Societies from Colonial Times to the Civil War. Ed. by Alexandra Oleson and Sanborn C. Brown. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xxv + 372. £11.55.

Stanley M. Guralnicka1

a1 Colorado School of Mines