Book ID: CBB000030437

Mark Twain and science: Adventures of a mind (1988)

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Cummings, Sherwood (Author)


Louisiana State University Press


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: xiii + 224 pp.; notes; index

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Finger, Stanley
Giancarlo Magnano San Lio
Williams, Nathaniel
Walsh, Lynda
Pruna, Pedro M.
Ortega, Ovidio
Journals
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
Quipu
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
State University of New York Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia; Instituto Goethe
British Museum Press
Akademie-Verlag
Princeton University
Concepts
Science
Science and literature
Technology and literature
Electricity; magnetism
Phrenology
Technology
People
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Fowler, Lorenzo Niles
Poe, Edgar Allan
Senarens, Luis Philip
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth
Garrett Putnam Serviss
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Latin America
British Isles
London (England)
Germany
Institutions
British Museum
Real Academia de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de La Habana
Universität Leipzig
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