We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
When the thirteen English colonies in North America became the United States of America in the 1770s, they possessed relatively few scientific institutions. However, by this time Americans enjoyed sufficient wealth and leisure to support fairly robust scientific communities in Philadelphia and Boston and moderately active ones in Charleston and New York. The most enterprising members of these communities worked closely with the major scientific centers of the Old World while at the same time developing intercolonial ties. Cultivators of natural history established an informal network of correspondents, and the American Philosophical Society, though essentially a Philadelphia institution, reached out to natural philosophers in every colony.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
