Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

by Chandos Michael Brown

Book Overview

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. This absorbing biography is not only a study of the youth and early career of a complex and remarkable man but also a window on his times. In lively and often moving detail, Chandos Michael Brown opens the broad context of Silliman's life in his native...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691085331
• ISBN13: 9780691085333
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.6"