1600-1754: Science and Medicine
1600-1754: Chapter Eleven: Science and Medicine
by RUSSELL LAWSON
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY 374
OVERVIEW 382
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
Almanacs 384
Nor’easters 384
Astronomy 385
Craftsmen 386
Colonial Ironworks 387
Explorers 388
Mapping New England 388
Farm Life 389
Water Mills 389
Franklin’s Experiments 390
The Franklin Stove 391
Geography: The First American Science 392
Ebenezer Kinnersley’s Science Show 394
The Inoculation Controversy 394
Natural Theology 395
Physicians 396
The Pennsylvania Hospital 397
Women 397
A Wooden World 398
The Birch-bark Canoe 399
HEADLINE MAKERS
John Bartram 400
Jane Colden 400
Louis Hennepin 402
John Josselyn 403
Cotton Mather 403
PUBLICATIONS 404
Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.
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