Title Patronage, practice, and the culture of American science : Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey / Hugh Richard Slotten

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Becoming a man of science -- 2. Reforming American science -- 3. Background to reform -- 4. Mobilizing for government science -- 5. Reforming the Coast Survey -- 6. Providing patronage for American science -- 7. Practising government science -- Notes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-222) and index Subject Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 -- Influence. Physicists -- United States -- Biography. Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Genre/Form Biographies. LC no. 93006230 ISBN 0521433959

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