The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden

empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York

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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden

empire, science, and intellectual culture in British New York

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"Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"--

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Language
English
Pages
243

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Table of Contents

Enlightened age
Pursuit of gentility
Intellectuals
Knowledge of empires
Otium
Philosophical actions
Partisanship
Colden's ordeal.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ithaca

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
974.7/02092
Library of Congress
F122 .C6825 2016, F122.C6825 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 243 p. ;
Number of pages
243

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26871176M
ISBN 10
0801448034
ISBN 13
9780801448034
LCCN
2015036031
OCLC/WorldCat
10384479, 921821812

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