Rumford Lecture Notes, 1815-1819 (inclusive).

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Rumford Lecture Notes, 1815-1819 (inclusive).

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Notes of lectures given by Bigelow as Rumford Professor at Harvard University on a variety of topics including geology and architecture. The notes were edited and published as "Elements of Technology" (1829) and revised as "The Useful Arts" (1842). Some notes in hand of Mary (Scollay) Bigelow.

24 volumes; 24 x 20 x 1 centimeters.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...