Science and Technology in Colonial America (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Science and Technology in Everyday Life) PDF
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN COLONIAL AMERICA The Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series The Age of Charlemagne Maya Civilization John ]. Butt Robert J. Sharer The Age of Sail Medieval Europe Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo Jeffrey L. Singman The American Revolution The Medieval Islamic World Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo James E. Lindsay The Ancient Egyptians The Nineteenth Century American Bob Brier and Hoyt Hobbs Frontier Mary Ellen Jones The Ancient Greeks Robert Garland The Nubians Robert S. Bianchi Ancient Mesopotamia Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat The Old Colonial Frontier James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo The Ancient Romans David Matz Renaissance Italy Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V Cohen The Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth David Carrasco with Scott Sessions The Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia Gregory S. Aldrete Chaucer's England Jeffrey L. Singman and Will McLean Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America Civil War America Todd Timmons Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo The Soviet Union Colonial New England Katherine B. Eaton Claudia Durst Johnson The Spanish Inquisition Early Modern Japan James M. Anderson Louis G. Perez Traditional China: The Tang Dynasty The Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Charles Benn Creating a New Nation The United States, 1920-1939: Decades of David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler Promise and Pain 18th-Century England David E. Kyvig Kirstin Olsen The United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Elizabethan England Worlds Jeffrey L. Singman Eugenia Kaledin The Holocaust The United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Eve Nussbaum Soumerai and Discord Carol D. Schulz Myron A. Marty The Inca Empire Victorian England Michael A. Malpass Sally Mitchell The Industrial United States, 1870-1900 The Vikings Julie Husband and Jim O' Loughlin Kirsten Wolf Jews in the Middle Ages World War I Norman Roth Neil M. Heyman SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN COLONIAL AMERICA WILLIAM E. BURNS The Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series © GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burns, William E. Science and technology in colonial America / William E. Burns, p. cm. — (The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series, ISSN 1080-4749) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-313-33160-X (alk. paper) 1. Technology—United States—History—18th century. 2. Technology—United States— History—17th century. 3. Science—United States—History—18th century. 4. Science— United States—History—17th century. 5. United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.1. Title. II. Series. T21.B85 2005 509.73'09'033—dc22 2005020458 British Library Cataloging in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2005 by William E. Burns All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2005020458 ISBN: 0-313-33160-X ISSN: 1080-4749 First published in 2005 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www. greenwood .com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). 109 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 211 Every reasonable effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright materials in this book, but in some instances this has proven impossible. The author and publisher will be glad to receive information leading to more complete acknowledgments in subsequent printings of the book and in the meantime extend their apologies for any omissions. Dedicated to Paula Findlen, Margaret Jacob, and the memory of Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, mothers in learning This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Chronology xix 1. Making a Living: Agriculture 1 2. Wood, Fruit Crops, and Other Tree Products 17 3. Making a Living: Manufacturing and Industry 27 4. The World of the Sea 41 5. Technology in Domestic Life 51 6. Architecture and Housing 65 7. Transportation 79 8. Reading and Seeing: The Technology of Words and Images 89 9. Science and Technology on the Land: Surveying and Cartography 97 10. Technology and War 107 11. Natural Knowledge in American Colonial Societies 121 viii Contents 12. The Scientific Revolution in Colonial America 133 13. The Age of Benjamin Franklin 145 Bibliography 165 Index 175 Acknowledgments I thank the Folger Library, the Library of Congress, Founders Library of Howard University, and the Soper Library of Morgan State University for providing research materials. I also thank American Memory at the Library of Congress, the Schomburg Center for Electronic Texts and Images, and the Flowerdew Hundred Foundation for their generous permission to use their images for the illustrations. Finally, I thank my editors, particularly Kevin Downing at Greenwood, for their help.
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