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251 Frontiers of Science

2019/8/13
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What did early Americans think about science? And how did they pursue and develop their knowledge of it?

Cameron Strang), an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850), joins us to investigate the early American world of science and how early Americans developed their scientific knowledge.

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