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Mathematics Is a Gentleman's Art: Analysis and Synthesis in American College Geometry Teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2000 Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Higher Education and Teaching Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Science and Mathematics Education Commons Recommended Citation Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy K., "Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 " (2000). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 12669. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/12669 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margwis, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. in the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\Roi^RISTOWN
BULLETIN joffAe- HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\rOI^RISTOWN £omery PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AT IT5 R00M5 IS EAST PENN STREET NORRI5TOWN.PA. OCTOBER, 1939 VOLUME II NUMBER 1 PRICE 50 CENTS Historical Society of Montgomery County OFFICERS Nelson P. Fegley, Esq., President S. Cameron Corson, First Vice-President Mrs. John Faber Miller, Second Vice-President Charles Harper Smith, Third Vice-President Mrs. Rebecca W. Brecht, Recording Secretary Ella Slinglupp, Corresponding Secretary Annie B. Molony, Financial Secretary Lyman a. Kratz, Treasurer Emily K. Preston, Librarian TRUSTEES Franklin A. Stickler, Chairman Mrs. A. Conrad Jones Katharine Preston H. H. Ganser Floyd G. Frederick i David Rittenhouse THE BULLETIN of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Published Semi-Anrvmlly — October and April Volume II October, 1939 Number 1 CONTENTS Dedication of the David Rittenhouse Marker, June 3, 1939 3 David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S. A Study from ContemporarySources, Milton Rubincam 8 The Lost Planetarium of David Ritten house James K. Helms 31 The Weberville Factory Charles H. Shaw 35 The Organization of Friends Meeting at Norristown Helen E. Richards 39 Map Making and Some Maps of Mont gomery County Chester P. Cook 51 Bible Record (Continued) 57 Reports 65 Publication Committee Dr. W. H. Reed, Chairman Charles R. Barker Hannah Gerhard Chester P. Cook Bertha S. Harry Emily K. Preston, Editor 1 Dedication of the David Rittenhouse Marker June 3, 1939 The picturesque farm of Mr. Herbert T. Ballard, Sr., on Germantown Pike, east of Fairview Village, in East Norriton township, was the scene of a notable gathering, on June 3, 1939, the occasion being the dedication by the Historical So ciety of Montgomery County of the marker commemorating the observation of the transit of Venus by the astronomer, David Rittenhouse, on nearby ground, and on the same month and day, one hundred and seventy years before. -
The Republican Theology of Benjamin Rush
THE REPUBLICAN THEOLOGY OF BENJAMIN RUSH By DONALD J. D'ELIA* A Christian [Benjamin Rush argued] cannot fail of be- ing a republican. The history of the creation of man, and of the relation of our species to each other by birth, which is recorded in the Old Testament, is the best refuta- tion that can be given to the divine right of kings, and the strongest argument that can be used in favor of the original and natural equality of all mankind. A Christian, I say again, cannot fail of being a republican, for every precept of the Gospel inculcates those degrees of humility, self-denial, and brotherly kindness, which are directly opposed to the pride of monarchy and the pageantry of a court. D)R. BENJAMIN RUSH was a revolutionary in his concep- tions of history, society, medicine, and education. He was also a revolutionary in theology. His age was one of universality, hle extrapolated boldly from politics to religion, or vice versa, with the clear warrant of the times.1 To have treated religion and politics in isolation from each other would have clashed with his analogical disposition, for which he was rightly famous. "Dr. D'Elia is associate professor of history at the State University of New York College at New Paltz. This paper was read at a session of the annual meeting of the Association at Meadville, October 9, 1965. 1Basil Willey, The Eighteenth Century Background; Studies on the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period (Boston: Beacon Press, 1961), p. 137 et passim. -
The Misunderstood Philosophy of Thomas Paine
THE MISUNDERSTOOD PHILOSOPHY OF THOMAS PAINE A Thesis Presented to The Graduate Faculty of The University of Akron In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of History Jason Kinsel December, 2015 THE MISUNDERSTOOD PHILOSOPHY OF THOMAS PAINE Jason Kinsel Thesis Approved: Accepted: ______________________________ _____________________________ Advisor Dean of the College Dr. Walter Hixson Dr. Chand Midha ______________________________ ______________________________ Faculty Reader Dean of the Graduate School Dr. Martino-Trutor Dr. Chand Midha ______________________________ ______________________________ Department Chair Date Dr. Martin Wainwright ii ABSTRACT The name Thomas Paine is often associated with his political pamphlet Common Sense. The importance of “Common Sense” in regards to the American Revolution has been researched and debated by historians, political scientists, and literary scholars. While they acknowledge that Paine’s ideas and writing style helped to popularize the idea of separation from Great Britain in 1776, a thorough analysis of the entirety of Paine’s philosophy has yet to be completed. Modern scholars have had great difficulty with categorizing works such as, The Rights of Man, Agrarian Justice, and Paine’s Dissertation on First Principles of Government. Ultimately, these scholars feel most comfortable with associating Paine with the English philosopher John Locke. This thesis will show that Paine developed a unique political philosophy that is not only different from Locke’s in style, but fundamentally opposed to the system of government designed by Locke in his Second Treatise of Government. Furthermore, I will provide evidence that Paine’s contemporary’s in the American Colonies and Great Britain vehemently denied that Paine’s ideas resembled those of Locke in any way. -
1 UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY in TROUBLE: OAS to the RESCUE? LALS 328/PSCI 328 Professor: Cathy Bartch, Ph.D. Class T
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY IN TROUBLE: OAS TO THE RESCUE? LALS 328/PSCI 328 Professor: Cathy Bartch, Ph.D. Class Times: TH 4:30-6 [email protected] Class Location: David Rittenhouse Laboratory ph: 215-898-9919, 267-475-2467 (cell) DRLB 3N1H Teaching Assistant: Maria Francesca Arruda 209 S. 33rd Street de Amaral (*Subject to change from week to week) [email protected] Office Hours: Fri (4-5) 215-582-4082 Office Location: 411 McNeil, 3718 Locust Walk Or at a time that is convenient COURSE DESCRIPTION: Democracy in the Americas is in trouble. Entrenched political, economic, and social inequality, combined with environmental degradation, weak institutions, pervasive health epidemics, weapon proliferation, and other pressing issues pose formidable challenges for strengthening democratic ideals and institutions. The Organization of the American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional organization, is uniquely poised to confront these challenges and is purposively focused to “strengthen the peace and security” and “promote and consolidate representative democracy” (among a host of other goals set forth in its Charter) across the continent. However, to what extent does the OAS ameliorate destructive conditions such as low levels of participation, extreme poverty, illegal arms trade, human rights abuses, among other problems related to democracy, development, security, and human rights, the organization’s main pillars? In this course, students will delve into the role, history, and workings of the OAS and its political, economic, and societal impact in the region while working directly with Penn undergraduates in preparation for the OAS’ annual high school model OAS simulation in Washington, DC. -
In the Polite Eighteenth Century, 1750–1806 A
AMERICAN SCIENCE AND THE PURSUIT OF “USEFUL KNOWLEDGE” IN THE POLITE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1750–1806 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Elizabeth E. Webster Christopher Hamlin, Director Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science Notre Dame, Indiana April 2010 © Copyright 2010 Elizabeth E. Webster AMERICAN SCIENCE AND THE PURSUIT OF “USEFUL KNOWLEDGE” IN THE POLITE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1750–1806 Abstract by Elizabeth E. Webster In this thesis, I will examine the promotion of science, or “useful knowledge,” in the polite eighteenth century. Historians of England and America have identified the concept of “politeness” as a key component for understanding eighteenth-century culture. At the same time, the term “useful knowledge” is also acknowledged to be a central concept for understanding the development of the early American scientific community. My dissertation looks at how these two ideas, “useful knowledge” and “polite character,” informed each other. I explore the way Americans promoted “useful knowledge” in the formative years between 1775 and 1806 by drawing on and rejecting certain aspects of the ideal of politeness. Particularly, I explore the writings of three central figures in the early years of the American Philosophical Society, David Rittenhouse, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin Rush, to see how they variously used the language and ideals of politeness to argue for the promotion of useful knowledge in America. Then I turn to a New Englander, Thomas Green Fessenden, who identified and caricatured a certain type of man of science and satirized the late-eighteenth-century culture of useful knowledge. -
Political Discourse and the Pennsylvania Constitution, 1776 - 1790
Virtuous Democrats, Liberal Aristocrats: Political Discourse and the Pennsylvania Constitution, 1776 - 1790 Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie im Fachbereich 10 – Neuere Philologien der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main vorgelegt von Thomas W. Clark aus Frankfurt am Main 2001 If we can agree where the liberty and freedom of the people lies, that will do all. - Colonel Ireton, The Putney Debates But, notwithstanding this almost unanimous agreement in favour of liberty, neither were all disposed to go the same lenghts for it, nor were they perfectly in unison in the idea annexed to it. - Alexander Graydon, Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly passed in Pennsylvania Fraud lurks in generals. There is not a more unintelligible word in the English language than republicanism. - John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren CONTENTS PREFACE vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi 1. PART I REVOLUTIONARY PARADIGMS 1.1 Ex Uno Plures or The American Revolution as a Discourse Community 1 1.1.1 Truth and Difference, Republicans and Scholars 1 1.1.2 Revolutionary Pennsylvania as a Discourse Community 18 1.2 Revolutionary Ideology between Republicanism and Liberalism 36 1.2.1 Liberalism Versus Republicanism 36 1.2.2 Classical Republicanism 42 1.2.3 Liberalism 55 1.2.4 Transformation, Opposition, Permeation 61 1.3 Social as Political Conflict: The Few, the Many, the People 75 1.3.1 Rhetoric, Reality, and Radicalism 75 1.3.2 The Discourse of Popular Sovereignty 87 1.3.3 Limiting and Affirming the People: an Exemplary Analysis 96 1.4 Deference to Diversity: Politics and Society in Pennsylvania 105 1.4.1 Quaker Conflict and Hegemony 107 1.4.2 Ethnocultural Pluralism, Sectionalism and the Politics of Heterogeneity 115 1.4.3 Social Diversity and the Emergence of Popular Radicalism 124 1.4.4 Power Struggles, 1776-1790 136 2. -
The Newtonian Epoch in the American Colonies (1680-1783) by Fkedeeick E
314 American Antiquarian Society [Oct., THE NEWTONIAN EPOCH IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES (1680-1783) BY FKEDEEICK E. BRASCH ISTORY in its constant recording of events of H human experience moves on steadily and per- sistently. However certain is the course of history, it is nevertheless a varied series of epochs, events, or com- bination of experiences. It is therefore of vital concern from an intellectual point of view that a retrospective and introspective attitude be maintained in order to see how life as it is today has been achieved. From our present position in the course of events, we are con- cerned today with one of the great periods of the past movement. It is a small section to be sure, but a most interesting and timely one. Between the years of 1680 and 1720 in English history, under the rule of William III and Queen Anne, a most brilliant and illuminating intellectual life is reported. England virtually assumed undisputed leadership only to share it later, first with France and then with Germany. In this period England gave to history her best, both in science and philosophy. The accumulated wisdom of the ages seems to have been concentrated in the lives and works of two undis- putedly brilliant minds, Isaac Newton and John Locke. Theirs are beyond question the outstanding names in that epoch, which followed the discoveries and the liberations of the Renaissance and the Reform- ation, and preceded the great mathematical, physical and philosophical discoveries of today. In one sense Newton and Locke were systematizers of ideas which were prevalent. -
Pennsylvania History (People, Places, Events) Record Holdings Scholars in Residence Pennsylvania History Day People Places Events Things
rruVik.. reliulsyiVUtlll L -tiestuly ratge I UI I Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Home Programs & Events Researchr Historic Sites & Museums Records Management About Us Historic Preservation Pennsylvania State Archives CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information Doc Heritage Digital Archives (ARIAS) 0OF ExplorePAhistory.com V Land Records things Genealogy Pennsylvania History (People, Places, Events) Record Holdings Scholars in Residence Pennsylvania History Day People Places Events Things Documentary Heritaae Pennsylvania Governors Symbols and Official Designations Examples: " Keystone State," Flower, Tree Penn-sylyania Counties Outline of Pennsylvania History 1, n-n. II, ni, tv, c.tnto ~ no Ii~, ol-, /~~h nt/n. mr. on, ,t on~~con A~2 1 .rrniV1%', reiniSy1Vdaina riiSiur'y ragcaeiuo I ()I U Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission lome Programs & Events Research Historic Sites & Museums Records Management About Us Historic Preservation Pennsylvania State Archives PENNSYLVANIA STATE CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information HISTO RY Doc Heritage Digital Archives (ARIAS) ExplorePAhistory.com Land Records THE QUAKER PROVINCE: 1681-1776 Genealogy Pennsylvania History . (People, Places, Events) Record Holdings Y Scholars in Residence Pennsylvania History Day The Founding of Pennsylvania William Penn and the Quakers Penn was born in London on October 24, 1644, the son of Admiral Sir William Penn. Despite high social position and an excellent education, he shocked his upper-class associates by his conversion to the beliefs of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, then a persecuted sect. He used his inherited wealth and rank to benefit and protect his fellow believers. Despite the unpopularity of his religion, he was socially acceptable in the king's court because he was trusted by the Duke of York, later King James II. -
Teaching the Presidency: Idealizing a Constitutional Office
............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. SPOTLIGHT ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Teaching the Presidency: Idealizing a Constitutional Office Louis Fisher, The Constitution Project ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. rom World War II to the present, prominent scholars what damage was done to the American constitutional system placed their hopes in the presidency to protect the that depends on separation of powers and checks and balances? nation from outside threats and deal effectively with ROSSITER’S SCHOLARSHIP domestic crises. Their theories weakened the consti- tutional system of separation of powers and checks Clinton Rossiter’s The American Presidency, published in 1956 fol- and balances by reviving an outsized trust in executive power (espe- lowed by a paperback edition in 1960, promoted an idealized image F of executive power. Insisting that he was not recognizing some- cially over external -
The Federalist and the American Constitution, Prof. David Lay Williams
Political Science 393 Prof. David Williams Spring 2019 Office: 990 W. Fullerton, 2205 M-W 11:20-12:50 Phone: 773-325-4906 DePaul University Office Hours: T 11:00-1:30 & by appt. E-Mail: [email protected] The Federalist 1 It is best to email me from your depaul.edu account, since emails from other servers are often first delivered to my DePaul junk mailbox. Much praise has been heaped upon The Federalist since it appeared as a series of essays in the New York newspapers in 1787-88. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1788 that it was “the best commentary on the principles of government, which ever was written.”2 Alexis de Tocqueville commented in his Democracy in America, “The Federalist is a fine book, and though it especially concerns America, it should be familiar to statesmen of all countries.”3 Gottfried Dietze has called it “the outstanding contribution to the literature on constitutional democracy and federalism, a classic of Western political thought.”4 Clinton Rossiter observed, “The Federalist is the most important work in political science that has ever been written, or is likely ever to be written in the United States.”5 Edward Gaylord Bourne commented, The Federalist is “the most important contribution of our country to the literature of political science.”6 Even critics, such as Charles Beard, have acknowledged that the Federalist is a “wonderful piece of argumentation by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay” and “is in fact the finest study in the economic interpretation of politics which exists in any language.”7 Although written in great haste for the very practical purpose of seeing to the Constitution’s ratification in New York, commentators are right to point to the essays’ timelessness. -
Revisiting Clinton Rossiter's 1948 Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law LARC @ Cardozo Law Articles Faculty 2013 Roman Roots for an Imperial Presidency: Revisiting Clinton Rossiter's 1948 Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies David Rudenstine Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-articles Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation David Rudenstine, Roman Roots for an Imperial Presidency: Revisiting Clinton Rossiter's 1948 Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies, 34 Cardozo Law Review 1063 (2013). Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-articles/170 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty at LARC @ Cardozo Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of LARC @ Cardozo Law. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. RUDENSTINE.34.3 (clean) (Do Not Delete) 2/15/2013 12:07 PM ROMAN ROOTS FOR AN IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY: REVISITING CLINTON ROSSITER’S 1948 CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP: CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN THE MODERN DEMOCRACIES David Rudenstine† TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1063 I. MY ROAD FROM UNITED STATES V. REYNOLDS TO ROSSITER’S CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP .......................................................................... 1064 II. CLINTON ROSSITER’S CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP