Author: Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405125492
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Memorials of William Cranch Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, 1840-1859, and of His Son, George Phillips Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, 1859-1965
Author: Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405125492
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405125492
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Memorials of William Cranch Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, 1840-1859, and of His Son, George Phillips Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, 1859-1965
Author: Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Born in Cambridge
Author: Karen Weintraub
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262046806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of “firsts”: the first college in the English colonies, the first two-way long-distance call, the first legal same-sex marriage. In 1632, Anne Bradstreet, living in what is now Harvard Square, wrote one of the first published poems in British North America, and in 1959, Cambridge-based Carter’s Ink marketed the first yellow Hi-liter. W.E.B. Du Bois, Julia Child, Yo-Yo Ma, and Noam Chomsky all lived or worked in Cambridge at various points in their lives. Born in Cambridge tells these stories and many others, chronicling cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations that all came from one city of modest size across the Charles River from Boston. Nearly 200 illustrations connect stories to Cambridge locations. Cambridge is famous for being home to MIT and Harvard, and these institutions play a leading role in many of these stories—the development of microwave radar, the invention of napalm, and Robert Lowell’s poetry workshop, for example. But many have no academic connection, including Junior Mints, Mount Auburn Cemetery (the first garden cemetery), and the public radio show Car Talk. It’s clear that Cambridge has not only a genius for invention but also a genius for reinvention, and authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta consider larger lessons from Cambridge’s success stories—about urbanism, the roots of innovation, and nurturing the next generation of good ideas.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262046806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of “firsts”: the first college in the English colonies, the first two-way long-distance call, the first legal same-sex marriage. In 1632, Anne Bradstreet, living in what is now Harvard Square, wrote one of the first published poems in British North America, and in 1959, Cambridge-based Carter’s Ink marketed the first yellow Hi-liter. W.E.B. Du Bois, Julia Child, Yo-Yo Ma, and Noam Chomsky all lived or worked in Cambridge at various points in their lives. Born in Cambridge tells these stories and many others, chronicling cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations that all came from one city of modest size across the Charles River from Boston. Nearly 200 illustrations connect stories to Cambridge locations. Cambridge is famous for being home to MIT and Harvard, and these institutions play a leading role in many of these stories—the development of microwave radar, the invention of napalm, and Robert Lowell’s poetry workshop, for example. But many have no academic connection, including Junior Mints, Mount Auburn Cemetery (the first garden cemetery), and the public radio show Car Talk. It’s clear that Cambridge has not only a genius for invention but also a genius for reinvention, and authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta consider larger lessons from Cambridge’s success stories—about urbanism, the roots of innovation, and nurturing the next generation of good ideas.
American Paintings at Harvard
Author: Theodore E. Stebbins
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030015352X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Portrait Collection, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and other entities, and date from the early colonial years to the mid-19th century. Highlights include a rare group of 17th-century portraits, along with important paintings by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Washington Allston, in addition to works depicting western and Native American subjects by Alexandre de Batz, Henry Inman, and Alfred Jacob Miller, among others. Each work is accompanied by scholarly commentary that draws on extensive new research, as well as a complete exhibition and reference history. An introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. describes the history of the collection. Lavishly illustrated in color, this compendium is a testament to the nation's oldest collection of American art, and an essential resource for scholars and collectors alike.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030015352X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Portrait Collection, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and other entities, and date from the early colonial years to the mid-19th century. Highlights include a rare group of 17th-century portraits, along with important paintings by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Washington Allston, in addition to works depicting western and Native American subjects by Alexandre de Batz, Henry Inman, and Alfred Jacob Miller, among others. Each work is accompanied by scholarly commentary that draws on extensive new research, as well as a complete exhibition and reference history. An introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. describes the history of the collection. Lavishly illustrated in color, this compendium is a testament to the nation's oldest collection of American art, and an essential resource for scholars and collectors alike.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description