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Alexander Dallas Bache
This is the biography of a man who made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U.S. Coast Survey. Alexander Dallas Bache was appointed superintendent in 1843, and the Survey increased its scope and improved its methods in the study of winds, tides, currents, and harbors under his charge Grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Bache was also active in education. Elected first president of Girard College when he was thirty, he visited European educational institutions in order to study their methods. And it may well be that, because of the admiration felt for his great ancestor, he was received in Europe with more attention than even his scholarship and personality merited. H...
Alexander Dallas Bache
Alexander Dallas Bache was the key leader of antebellum American scientists. Presuming his profession to be a herald of an integrated U.S. nation-state, Bache guided organizations such as the United States Coast Survey, then the country's largest scientific enterprise. In this analytical biography, Axel Jansen explains Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as a national foundation for a universalistic culture—efforts that culminated during the Civil War when Bache helped found the National Academy of Sciences as a symbol for the continued viability of an American nation. Die Open-Access-Version dieser Publikation wird gefördert mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Eulogy on Prof. Alexander Dallas Bache, Late Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
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Eulogy on Prof. Alexander Dallas Bache
Excerpt from Eulogy on Prof. Alexander Dallas Bache: Late Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, President of the National Academy of Sciences, Etc Alexander dallas bache, whose life and character form the sub jcet of the following eulogy, was the son of Richard Bache, one of eight children of Sarah, the only daughter of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. His mother was Sophia Burret Dallas, daughter of Alexander J. Dallas, and sister of George M. Dallas, whose names are well known in the history of this country, the former as Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter as vice-president of the United States, and subsequently as minister to the Court of St. James. About the Publisher Forgotten ...
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science
In this book Hugh Richard Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus is on the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache - great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged "chief" of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache played a central role in the organization and management of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences. But his dominance in these institutions was made possible through his control of an organization less well known today, the Uni...
Eulogy on Prof. Alexander Dallas Bache, Late Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey - Scholar's Choice Edition
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