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Quakers in science and industry

Raistrick, Arthur.

Quakers in science and industry

being an account of the Quaker contributions to science and industry during the 17th and 18th centuries.

by Raistrick, Arthur.

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Published by Kelley in New York .
Written in

    Places:
  • Great Britain
    • Subjects:
    • Quakers -- Great Britain -- Biography.,
    • Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.,
    • Great Britain -- Biography.

    • Edition Notes

      Reprint of the 1950 edition with a new introd.

      Classifications
      LC ClassificationsBX7676 .R3 1968
      The Physical Object
      Pagination361 p.
      Number of Pages361
      ID Numbers
      Open LibraryOL5610901M
      LC Control Number68018641

      The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age: ­– Philip S. Benjamin; Temple University Press, Phil.; Quakerism and Industry Before Isabel Grubb, M.A.; Williams & Norgate, Ltd., London; Quakers In Science and Industry; being an account of the Quaker contribution to science and industry during the 17 th and 18 th.   Quakers, business and morality their Quaker masters ensuring that those youngsters were drilled in the habits of industry and application and shielded from the world at large. Long hours, little free time, insulation from other youths and their pleasures - all and more ensured the raising of new generations of young Quakers steeped in the.

        Quaker Books for Quaker Kids J by Elizabeth Bird So I’m having lunch with a fellow from the entertainment industry the other day and by some quirk of conversation we begin discussing Quakerism. QUAKERS AND SCIENCE: AN OVERVIEW GEOFFREY CANTOR I n his analysis of Quaker contributions to science and industry dur-ing the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Arthur Raistrick claimed that “Friends have secured something like forty timestheir due proportion of Fellows of the Royal Society during its long histo-ry.”.

      Books about Quakers This is a short list of publications we recommend for newcomers or people interested in finding out about Quakers. You can find all of these titles and many more at QuakerBooks of FGC. For a first introduction: Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction to the Quaker Way by Steve Chase. Raistrick, Quakers in Science and Industry, being an Account of the Quaker Contributions to Science and Industry during the 17th and 18th Centuries (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, ), p. ; emphasis added.


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