BOOK
Title:
The higher learning in America
Creator:
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Publication:
Yale University Press, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, New Haven, London, 1936.
Call #:
378.73 H97H
Extent:
119 p. ; octavo.
Subjects:
Subject
BOOK
Title:
Idea of the English school, sketch'd out for the consideration of the Trustees of the Philadelphia academy
Creators:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776
Publication:
Franklin and Hall, Philadelphia, 1751]
Call #:
378.748 P44 C.1
Extent:
8 p. ; duodecimo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Science & education
Creator:
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Publication:
Macmillan, London, 1895.
Call #:
370.4 H98S 1895
Extent:
ix, [1], 451 p. ; 18.5 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
An address to men of science: calling upon them to stand forward and vindicate the truth from the foul grasp and persecution of superstition, and obtain for the island of Great Britain the noble appellation of the focus of truth, whence mankind shall be illuminated, and the black and pestiferous clouds of persecution and superstition be banished from the face of the earth, as the only sure prelude to universal peace and harmony among the human race, in which a sketch of a proper system for the education of youth is submitted to their judgment
Creators:
Carlile, Richard, 1790-1843 | Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers
Publication:
Printed and published by R. Carlile, London, 1822.
Call #:
500 PAM.X NO.49
Extent:
48 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Education for freedom
Creator:
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Publication:
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, La, 1946.
Call #:
370.4 H97E
Extent:
ix, 108 p. ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Idea of the English school, sketch'd out for the consideration of the Trustees of the Philadelphia academy
Creators:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776
Publication:
Franklin and Hall, Philadelphia, 1751]
Call #:
378.748 P44 C.2
Extent:
8 p. ; duodecimo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Essays literary, moral & philosophical
Creator:
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia, 1798.
Call #:
818 R89
Extent:
378 p. ; octavo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Essay on the best system of liberal education: adapted to the genius of the government of the United States ... to which is prefixed, an address to the Legislature of Maryland on that subject
Creator:
Knox, Samuel, 1755 or 6-1832
Publication:
Warner & Hanna, Baltimore, 1799.
Notes:
Awarded premium from the American philosophical society, 1797; cf. Early Minutes - Meeting for Dec. 15, 1797. Not in Sabin.
Call #:
379.7 K77
Extent:
173 p. ; octavo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Idea of the English school, sketch'd out for the consideration of the Trustees of the Philadelphia academy
Creators:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776
Publication:
Franklin and Hall, Philadelphia, 1751]
Call #:
PAM. V.987, NO.11
Extent:
8 p. ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1820-1822
Abstract:
Opinions delivered before the Law Academy of Philadelphia by the provost and vice provost. The opinions are signed by Peter S. Du Ponceau as provost.
Call #:
Mss.340.7.L41
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
Circa 18th century
Abstract:
This is a circa eighteenth-century copybook with problems and illustrations in algebra and geometry. There are sections on extraction of the cube root, geometrical definitions of lines and angles, and first rudiments and preparatory problems in plane geometry.
Call #:
Mss.510.M42
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1821
Abstract:
This volume contains "solutions of the practical problems in [John] Gummere's astronomy."
Call #:
Mss.520.As83
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
Circa 1700
Abstract:
Charles Morton's "System of Physicks" was among the most important texts in natural philosophy in early America, used to teach science and the scientific method to students at both Harvard and Yale from the late 1680s through the 1720s. This fair copy was probably transcribed at one of those institutions in about 1700, and is a fairly complete accounting of Morton's best known work.
Call #:
Mss.530.Sy8
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
Circa 1810
Abstract:
A. Sager's brief notes provide an outline for a course of chemistry lectures, ca.1810. The notes, in Swedish, include sections on electricity and phlogiston.
Call #:
Mss.540.Sa1
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1826-1827
Abstract:
This volume begins with lecture number 23 (1826 December 13) and ends with number 59 (1827 February 21) of Silliman's lectures at Yale College.
Call #:
Mss.B.M622
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
ANALYTIC
Title:
Reorganization and administration of an elementary school to meet the needs of a community
Parent:
University of California publications in education. v. 2, no. 2
Creator:
Kyte, George C. (George Cleveland), b. 1892
Publication:
University of California press, Berkeley, Calif, 1925.
Notes:
An account of the reorganization, administration, and supervision of the Emerson elementary school, Berkeley, Calif. cf. p. 80. Bibliographical foot-notes.
Call #:
378.794 C12PED V.2, NO.2
Extent:
cover-title, 2 p. l., p. [79]-144. : tables, diagrs. ; 27 1/2 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
The power of freedom in human affairs
Creators:
Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Dickey, John Sloan, 1907-
Publication:
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1977.
Notes:
At head of title: Long may our land be bright ... Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:
370 M72P C.2
Extent:
xxii, 285 p. : front. (port.), illus. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Learned societies and the evolution of the disciplines
Creators:
Cohen, Saul Bernard. | Bromwich, David, 1951- | Stocking, George W., 1928-
Publication:
American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY, c1988.
Notes:
Cover title.
Call #:
506.73 AM72OP NO.5
Extent:
[i], 25 p. ; 21 1/2 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
The power of freedom in human affairs
Creators:
Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Dickey, John Sloan, 1907-
Publication:
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1977.
Notes:
At head of title: Long may our land be bright ... Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:
370 M72P C.1
Extent:
xxii, 285 p. : front. (port.), illus. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Considerations on religion and public education: with remarks on the speech of M. Dupont delivered in the National Convention of France, together with an address to the ladies, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland
Creator:
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Publication:
Weld and Greeenough, Boston], 1794.
Call #:
200 PAM. V.19, NO.7
Extent:
23, [1] p. ; sextodecimo.
Subjects:
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