The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian by Heather Ewing

The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian

Heather Ewing

448 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift—a half-million dollar bequest to establish a foundation in Washington "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The Smithsonian Institution, as it would ...

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