 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1911 - 736 pages
...countries; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land, and all philosophical (scientific) experiments that let light into the nature of things,...of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences and the pleasures of life." It was the parent of the American Association for the Advancement of Science... | |
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...chemistry; in mechanics; in arts, trades, and manufactures; in geography and topography; in agriculture; and "all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the pdwer of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The circular proposes... | |
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... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. 
