When Ben met Mary: the letters of Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf Von Rumford to Mary Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, 1793-1804: Ambix/ by James A.J.L Frank.

Title:

When Ben met Mary: the letters of Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf Von Rumford to Mary Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, 1793-1804: Ambix/ by James A.J.L Frank.

Author:

James, Frank A.J.L.

Call Number:

920 R936Le

Publication Information:

Abingdon, England: Taylor and Francis, 2023.

Physical Description:

Vol. 70, No.3;: 336 p.;c24.5 cm.

Description:

This paper publishes the sixty-nine surviving very personal letters that Reichsgraf von Rumford wrote to Viscountess Palmerston after they met in Milan in 1793. The letters draw attention to the private domestic spaces of science and the critical importance of the aristocracy in scientific developments, topics that have both received some discussion recently. They were, however, not written with the purpose of providing historical evidence, but as part of a decade-long friendship which the letters trace, revealing, Rumford's other amours.They also describe in some detail his thoughts about his activities as a member of the governing elite in Bavaria, his scientific and engineering researches...All this framed with the context of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

Subjects:

Letters.

People:

Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, 1753-1814. , Temple, Mary (Mee), Viscountess Palmerston, 1752-1805.

Organizations:

Ambix:

Terms of Use:

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Credit Line:

Gift of Frank A.J.L. James; December 2023;