Amos Eaton
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Amos Eaton was an American botanist, geologist, and educator who is considered the founder of the modern scientific prospectus in education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal art
Amos Eaton from Popular Science Monthly
Eaton's Herbarium, published in 1830, includes one hundred eleven specimens labeled in his handwriting.
Amos Eaton Commemorative Plate
Amos Eaton Grave Oakwood Cemetery Troy NY
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and in the Western Hemispher
Amos Eaton
…education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal arts tradition of classics, theology, lecture, and recitation. Eaton co-founded the Rensselaer School in 1824 with Stephen van Rensselaer III "in the application of science to the common purposes of life". His books in the eighteenth century were among…
Stephen van Rensselaer, founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Engraving of RPI in 1876
Russell Sage Laboratory
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