Item #053179 BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. Benjamin Silliman, Chandos Michael Brown.

BENJAMIN SILLIMAN.

A life in the young Republic. Pp. [ii]+xvi+378(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, notes index; med. 8vo; faint scratch mark to upper board; dust wrapper, edges slightly faded; Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989. *Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher - Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtuosi of the early Republic, and a founder of the American scientific community. Item #053179

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