Papers, 1806-1847.

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Papers, 1806-1847.

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Correspondence (1833-1847), passports, appointments of office, diploma and other papers relating to Poinsett's public career. Includes certificates of membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, certificate of election to the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and other learned societies. A number of documents bear the signatures of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

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