George Washington University. Dept. of Physics
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The Physics Department is a part of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Physics, although not always called physics, was taught at Columbian College during the 1820s. During the freshman and sophomore years, studies included English, Latin, and Greek; geography; arithmetic and algebra; history and antiquities; exercises in reading, speaking and composition; elements of chronology; rhetoric and logic; logarithms, geometry, trigonometry and mensuration; surveying, navigation, conic sections and Euclid's Elements. In his junior and senior years, the student took natural philosophy, astronomy, chemistry, fluxions, natural history, history of civil society, natural religion, Revelation, natural and political law, metaphysics, moral philosophy and analogy of religion to nature.
From the description of Physics Department records, 1935-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 752286553
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| creatorOf | George Washington University. Dept. of Physics,. Physics Department records, 1935-2000. | George Washington University | |
| creatorOf | George Washington University. Dept. of Physics. A brief history of the physics department, 1934-1994. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| referencedIn | History of physics institutional history collection A-K, [ca. 1883]-1989, (bulk 1960-1989). | New York State Historical Documents Inventory |
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| associatedWith | Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. |
| associatedWith | Gamow, George, 1904-1968. |
| associatedWith | George Washington University. |
| associatedWith | Niels Bohr Library. |
| associatedWith | Teller, Edward, 1908-2003. |
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