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Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846)

Auteur de A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen ... Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The...

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Crédit image: Benjamin Waterhouse, 1833, by Rembrandt Peale. Wikimedia Commons.

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Waterhouse, Benjamin
Date de naissance
1754
Date de décès
1846
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The botanist Being the botanical part of a course… par Benjamin Waterhouse
... it puts a dry subject into a pleasant dress; and explaining the principles of vegetation as well as of Botany, it will be a better preparation to a student than the elementary books generally are. That it's sale should have succeeded only South of Connecticut proves two things; one which I have long observed, that the scale of science cultivated in the east is more limited than that to the South, the clergy, who are afraid of science every where, controuling it there. The second, that the fell hatred of party spirit thinks no persecution too mean ... (TJ to Waterhouse, 9 March 1813)

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