Honoring James Smithson
Author | : Edward Marsh Gordon |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Labor turnover |
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Author | : Edward Marsh Gordon |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Labor turnover |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : William Jones Rhees |
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Author | : William J. Rhees |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2023-10-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368629727 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Author | : Heather Ewing |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408820757 |
In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.
Author | : Heather Ewing |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2007-04-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1596910291 |
Chronicles the life of James Smithson as a scientist, suspected spy, gambler, radical revolutionary, and philanthropist, telling the story of his remarkable bequest and the controversy it spawned.
Author | : JAMES SMITHSON |
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Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : William Jones Rhees |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1880 |
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