Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. As new incrips, bright dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+ 377 pp. with index. Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtupsi of the Early Republic. Silliman was a native of Connecticut whose father was captured by the Briish during the American Revolution. After graduating from Yale, and faced with his family's declining fortune, he invented a new career for himself as aprofessor of chemistry and mineralogy, founded Yale Medical School and was editor of the American Journal of Science. As New / as new. Item #E25317
ISBN: 0691085331
Price: $17.50