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PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE ADDRESSED TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, ASSEMBLED AT THE MEETING HOUSE NOV. 8, 1780, AFTER THE INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT INTO OFFICE by Bowdoin, James - 1780
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PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE ADDRESSED TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, ASSEMBLED AT THE MEETING HOUSE NOV. 8, 1780, AFTER THE INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT INTO OFFICE
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Boston: Edes, 1780. First Edition. 35pp. Old wrappers, stained. Evans 16720. Bowdoin was the second Governor of Massachusetts, President of the State's Constitutional Convention, collaborated with Benjamin Franklin on research and electricity, founder and first President of the American Academy of Arts and Science, etc.
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A philosophical discourse addressed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the presence of a respectable audience, assembled at the meeting-house in Brattle-Street, in Boston
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(A Philosophical Discourse, addressed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; to which are added three memoirs on philosophical subjects)
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No Place: No publisher. Pamphlet. Good. Publisher, date and place missing, although based on references, this is believed to have been printed by Adams and Nourse: Boston 1786. Disbound pamphlet. Pagination runs 25-71, and is complete within that section, although any preliminaries, preface, title page, and plate are MISSING. A disbound work, consisting of only the three memoirs, and LACKING any text prior to page 25. A work consisting of three memoirs (essays) presenting Bowdoin's thoughts on the properties of light and electricity, as influenced by Dr. (Benjamin) Franklin's observations on light and electrical fluid, as well as light from the sun and stars and a conjecture on how celestial bodies may be preserved from ruin by the law of gravitation. The third memoir, while also examining gravitation as it affects the solar system, contains more theological conjecture than scientific discourse. This whole discourse first appeared in the first volume of Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and…
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Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1780. Small 4to. 185 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches]. 35 pp., including half-title. Old library pamphlet binder. Marked "Withdrawn Bowdoin College Library" pencil mark "Dup" on paper label. First edition. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in Boston in 1780 during one of the most difficult years of the American Revolution. James Bowdoin was the first president and other founders were John Adams and John Hancock. It is the oldest society of its kind in America and was organized to foster the development of a new nation in the liberal arts, commerce, agriculture, science, and technology. Bowdoin's speech begins with a recitation on the history of nations and their development from classical time to the modern nation states of Europe. He continues by arguing that the United States of America is advancing civilization in a new hemisphere with a new governmental structure created for the well-being of its citizens and prosperity of its people.…
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