The science of James Smithson discoveries from the Smithsonian founder
"An exploration of the scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution"--
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The Long Road to Staffa
- Edinburgh, London, and Paris
- Tabasheer
- Calamine
- Minium
- The Sulphuret from Huel Boys
- On the Composition of Zeolite
- Ulmin
- A Saline Substance from Mount Vesuvius
- The Colouring Matters of Some Vegetables
- A Sulphuret of Lead and Arsenic, and
- "Plomb Gomme"
- Fibrous Copper and Capillary Metallic Tin
- Sulphate of Barium and Fluoride of Calcium
- A New Test for Arsenic, and "Smithson's Pile"
- Smithson's Lamp and the "Sappare"
- An "Aristocratic Science Dabbler"?
- Chloride of Potassium
- Compounds of Fluorine
- Egyptian Colors
- Kirkdale Cave and Penn's Theory
- The "Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge"
- Epilogue: Who Was James Smithson?
