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James Smithson, FRS, M.A. (1764 27 June 1829) was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the United States of ...

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James Smithson, MA, FRS (5 June 1765 27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution.

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The Stranger And The Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, And The Making Of America's Greatest Museum

Author:

Nina Burleigh

Publisher:

New Word City, Inc.

Binding:

Kindle Edition

Pages:

324

In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian.It wa...

James Smithson And His Bequest.

Author:

William Jones Rhees

Publisher:

University of Michigan Library

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

276

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-opt...

The Lost World Of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, And The Birth Of The Smithsonian

Author:

Heather Ewing

Publisher:

Bloomsbury USA

Binding:

Hardcover

Pages:

432

ISBN #:

1596910291

EAN Code:

9781596910294

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 be called, eventually grew into the largest museum an...

The Stranger And The Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, And The Making Of America's Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian

Author:

Nina Burleigh

Publisher:

William Morrow

Binding:

Hardcover

Pages:

320

ISBN #:

0060002417

EAN Code:

9780060002411

In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of social and intellectual history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian.It was one of t...

James Smithson And The Smithsonian Story

Author:

Leonard Carmichael

Publisher:

Putnam with the Smithsonian Institution

Binding:

Hardcover

Pages:

316

Hardcover - 1965

James Smithson And His Bequest (Classic Reprint)

Author:

William J. Rhees

Publisher:

Forgotten Books

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

282

ISBN #:

1330818008

EAN Code:

9781330818008

Excerpt from James Smithson and His BequestThe materials for a biography of James Smithson are exceedingly scanty, and no life of him has ever been published. Efforts have several times been made by the Smithsonian Institution to procure facts and incidents relative to its founder, and during the pr...

The Lost World Of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, And The Birth Of The Smithsonian

Author:

Heather Ewing

Publisher:

Bloomsbury USA

Binding:

Kindle Edition

Pages:

432

In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among ...

The Stranger And The Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, And The Making Of America's Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian

Author:

Nina Burleigh

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

320

ISBN #:

0060002425

EAN Code:

9780060002428

In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of social and intellectual history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian.It was one of t...

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