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The Lost World of James Smithson

Heather Ewing • ebook • epub

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    In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104, 960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington `for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.
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    Binding : Epub
    Auteur : Heather Ewing
    Bestandstype : epub
    Distributievorm : Ebook (digitaal)
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    Beveiliging : Digitaal watermerk (social DRM)   Informatie 
    Uitgeverij : Bloomsbury Publishing
    ISBN : 9781408820759
    Datum publicatie : 12-2010
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