The Society for Useful Knowledge (36 page)

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Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park.
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Davis, Joseph S.
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. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1917.

Delbourgo, James.
A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America
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Dickinson, John.
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Dierks, Konstantin. “Letter Writing, Masculinity, and American Men of Science, 1750–1800.”
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Dorfman, Joseph.
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Duffy, John.
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Dugatkin, Lee Alan.
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Dupree, A. Hunter. “The National Pattern of American Learned Societies, 1769–1863.” In
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Earnest, Ernest.
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Edwards, Jonathan.
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Faÿ, Bernard.
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Fox, George.
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Fraser, Walter J., Jr.,
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Glanvill, Joseph.
Plus Ultra, or the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge Since the Days of Aristotle
. London: James Collins, 1668.

Greaves, Richard L.
The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought; Background for Reform
. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1969.

Greene, Jack P. and Richard M. Jellison. “The Currency Act of 1764 in Imperial-Colonial Relations, 1764–1776.”
William and Mary Quarterly
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Greene, John C.
American Science in the Age of Jefferson
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——. “Science, Learning and Utility: Patterns of Organization in the Early American Republic.” In
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Grosser, E. Morton. “David Rittenhouse and European Astronomy.”
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Hall, Maria Boas.
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Halley, Edmond. “A New Method of Determining the Parallax of the Sun, or His Distance to the Earth.”
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Hamilton, Alexander.
Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744
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——.
The Tuesday Club: A Shorter Edition of the History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club
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Heilbron, J. L.
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics
. Berkeley: University of California, 1979.

Heimart, Alan. “Puritanism, the Wilderness, and the Frontier.”
New England Quarterly
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Hetrick, Lawrence. “The Origins, Goals, and Outcomes of John Bartram's Journey on the St. John's River, 1765–1766.” In
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Hindle, Brooke.
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——.
The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735–1789
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——. “The Quaker Background and Science in Colonial Philadelphia.” In
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Hoffman, Nancy E. and John C. van Horne, eds.
America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699–1777
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Hofstadter, Richard.
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Holmes, Richard.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Hooke, Robert.
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Hopkinson, Francis.
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——. “An Address to the American Philosophical Society.” In
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Hornsby, Thomas. “On the Transit of Venus in 1769.”
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Houghton, John. “A Discourse of Coffee.”
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Houston, Alan.
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Hughes, Thomas Parke.
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870–1970
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——.
Human-Built World
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Hume, David.
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Isaacson, Walter.
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Jefferson, Thomas.
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Johnson, Steven.
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Jones, Hugh.
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Jones, Richard Foster.
Ancients and Moderns: A Study in the Rise of the Scientific Movement in Seventeenth-Century England
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Kalm, Peter.
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Kaye, Harvey J.
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Lawrence, D. H.
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Lemay, J. A. Leo.
Ebenezer Kinnersley: Franklin's Friend
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964.

——.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin
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——, ed.
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Lillywhite, Bryant.
London Coffee Houses: A Reference Book of Coffee Houses of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
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Lingelbach, William E. “B. Franklin, Printer—New Source Materials.”
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Locke, John.
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——.
Two Treatises of Government
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Lownes, Albert E. “The 1769 Transit of Venus and Its Relation to Early American Astronomy.”
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Lundberg, David and Henry F. May. “The Enlightened Reader in America.”
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Lynd, Staughton. “The Mechanics in New York Politics, 1774–1788.”
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Mandeville, Bernard.
The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
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Marx, Karl.
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Marx, Leo.
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Mason, George Champlin.
Annals of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum
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May, Henry F.
The Enlightenment in America
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

McCoy, Drew R.
The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Melville, Herman.
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1844.

Meyer, D. H. “The Uniqueness of the American Enlightenment.”
American Quarterly
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Middlekauff, Robert.
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Micklus, Robert. “The Delightful Instruction of Dr. Alexander Hamilton's
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Miller, Perry.
The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.

——.
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954.

——. “The Responsibility of Mind in a Civilization of Machines.”
American Scholar
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Mittelberger, Gottlieb.
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Montgomery, Thomas Harrison.
A History of the University of Pennsylvania: From Its Foundation to A.D. 1770
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Moon, Jennifer Ann. “The Best Poor Man's Industry: Politics and the Political Economy of Poor Relief in Revolutionary Philadelphia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1995.

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Mulford, Carla. “Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory.”
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Neale, John.
Directions for Gentlemen Who Have Electrical Machines, How to Proceed in Making Their Experiments
. London: NP, 1747.

Neel, Joanne Loewe.
Phineas Bond; A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1786–1812
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

Nelson, William.
The Founding of Paterson as the Manufacturing Metropolis of the United States
. Newark, NJ: Advertiser Printing House, 1887.

Nelson, William and Charles A. Shriner.
History of Paterson and Its Environs
. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1920.

Newman, Simon P. “Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.”
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Newton, Isaac.
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Norton, John.
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Norwood, Christopher.
About Paterson: The Making and Unmaking of an American City
. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1974.

Oleson, Alexandra and Sanborn C. Brown, eds.
The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Olton, Charles S.
Artisans for Independence: Philadelphia Mechanics and the American Revolution
. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1975.

Ornstein, Martha.
The Role of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
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Overfield, Richard A.
Science in the
Virginia Gazette,
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. Emporia, KS: Kansas State Teachers College, 1968.

Paine, Thomas.
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation into True Fabulous Theology
. Boston: Josiah Mendum, 1852.