The Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume V: Public Institutions
Language: English
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1970
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VOLUME V ONLY, Presumed first edition w/NAP & SD, hardcover, has a small lean to the binding, very slight bumps to spine ends, and a hint of sunning to spine, otherwise a solid, tight, VG+ copy in a VG dust jacket, which is price clipped, has sunning to the spine with an offset to the back panel, slight bumps with short tears and shallow chips to spine ends and corners, and some light edgewear. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.
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- Title
- The Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume V: Public Institutions
- Author
- Rumford, Count; Brown, Sanborn C. (Ed.)
- Publisher
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674139550
- ISBN 13
- 9780674139558
- Edition
- Presumed First.
- Seller catalogs
- European History, Science
An American of wide-ranging interests and overflowing energy, Benjamin Thompson applied his scientific and technical knowledge to the improvement of public service and welfare institutions in Bavaria (a service for which he was made Count Rumford), Ireland, England, and Italy. In the process, he made important discoveries in physics. In this new edition of Rumford’s Works, Sanborn Brown has arranged his writings according to subject matter: in this fifth volume are Rumford’s papers on public institutions: “Poor in Munich”; “Poor in All Countries”; “Feeding the Poor”; “Coffee”; “Public Institutions in Bavaria”; “Regulations for the Army of Bavaria”; “Public Institutions in Great Britain”; and “The Royal Institution.”
The Collected Works of Count Rumford is much more than a source book or a guide to methods of research in physics. It provides a unique portrait of the scientific, political, and social conditions of the turbulent early years of the Industrial Revolution.
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