Chronicles Thomas Jefferson's achievements as an inventor, archaeologist, architect, and recorder of the natural world who brought "the fruits of science to an often skeptical America"

Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science

Biographies & Memoirs

Bedini, Silvio A.

Historical

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Provides over three hundred articles by more than one hundred contributors discussing information on the life and career of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia. Volumes 1 and 2

History

Americas

Simon&Schuster

An "utterly charming"(The Observer) look at the white Indian elephant who became the darling of Pope Leo X and Renaissance Europe. In 1514, Rome, the Eternal City, was the center of the Chrisitian world and home and workshop to Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. It was also the city of Pope Leo X, the pleasure-loving pontiff whose court was infamous for its excess, frivolity and impropriety, as well as for its newly-arrived white elephant Hanno. Hanno became a star feature in processions and festivals, and the subject of countless paintings, sculptures and fountains. In this fascinating glimpse at a forgotten sidenote to history, Silvio A. Bedini gives us an elephant's-back view of early modern Europe and the inner workings of the Vatican at the height of its influence. Charmingly written with dozens of accompanying photographs and illustrations, The Pope's Elephant will delight readers just as Hanno delighted the people of Rome five centuries ago. "A work of extraordinary scholarship. . . . Crisply written and amply illustrated, it shines a bright light on two short lives, that of Leo and Hanno, and that of the age they embodied."-- The Literary Review

The Pope's Elephant

World

Penguin??Books

More than just an encyclopedia on Christopher Columbus's life and voyages, this comprehensive reference book provides a panoramic view of the age of European exploration--from the late fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century--while emphasizing the motivations for exploration and the technological advances that enabled it to take place. With over 350 entries by 131 scholars, this work includes figures like Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando Cortes, Queen Isabel, and King Fernando of Spain; topics like navigation instruments, creolization, the mixing of races and cultures, diseases caught aboard ship and in the New World; and controversial issues such as invasion, conquest, and enslavement. Featuring over 400 illustrations and maps as well as useful bibliographies, this authoritative encyclopedia brings to life an important period of history--of expansion, invention, and diplomacy--that forever changed the European perception of the world.

Christopher Columbus And The Age Of Exploration

Da Capo Press

Two Italian monks who are imprisoned as spies while on a pilgrimage invent a new game to pass the time in a dungeon.

The spotted stones

Pantheon

The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia

This book is a scholarly study of a virtually unknown aspect of the history of horology (timekeeping), compiled from Chinese and Japanese historical and literary records, some of which are translated and published here for the first time. Incense timekeepers played an important role in early Chinese social and technological history, in addition to their use for time measurement. They were used in temples for religious rites, in agricultural regions for regulating water for irrigation, in palaces and government offices, and in the studies of scholars. A fascinating compendium of knowledge about a neglected aspect of Oriental culture, this book will appeal not only to historians of China and Japan, but to the growing number of collectors and museum curators who are interested in incense clocks. It is illustrated with black and white halftones of a large number of the clocks, which are renowned for their beauty of design and quality of workmanship. The book also includes a catalogue of incense clocks which have appeared in auction houses and museums.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

The personal history of the black scientist reveals his dramatic struggle for recognition in the early years of America

The Life of Benjamin Banneker

Community & Culture

Orginally published by Scribner in 1972 to wide praise and critical acclaim, Silvio Bedini's work remains the definitive biography of Benjamin Banneker, the self-educated mathematician and astronomer who became America's first black scientist. Born a free man in Maryland in 1731, he had little formal education but developed a remarkable aptitude for mathematics. He assisted in surveying the area that was to become the District of Columbia, but his real achievement came with the creation of almanacs. Through much of the 1790s, his work influenced daily life in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1791 he took up his pen and wrote to Thomas Jefferson, arguing that the treatment of blacks in the young United States was unwarranted and unfair. In his own time, antislavery activists hailed his accomplishments, and today his life is honored as a model of achievement. But as is the case with many famous lives, myth and legend have begun to cloud history. In recent years, Banneker has been memorialized for things he did not do, such as designing the city of Washington.

Life of Benjamin Banneker

Professionals & Academics

Simon Schuster Trade

Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. (1975), 520pp, illustrated

Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science

Charles Scribner`s Sons

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Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science

Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia. Volumes 1 and 2

The Pope's Elephant

Christopher Columbus And The Age Of Exploration

The spotted stones

The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia

The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia

The Life of Benjamin Banneker

Life of Benjamin Banneker

Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science