Title
The American Journal of Science, More Especially of Mineralogy, Geology, and the Other Branches of Natural History; Including Also Agriculture and the Ornamental as well as Useful Arts
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Published by J. Eastburn and Co.
Date
July 1818
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
The most important nineteenth-century American scientific journal. It was first edited by Benjamin Silliman, Yale professor of chemistry and mineralogy, the best-known scientist of the period and arguably the most respected. According to Frank Luther Mott, “There was a time when it was enough to prove a point in any popular American forum [by quoting] Silliman.” The journal was edited by him and then his son for nearly seventy years. It continues to be published.
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