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Astronomical Lectures read in the Chapel of Harvard College at Cambridge in America, 1780-1781 Digital
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Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Papers of Samuel Williams
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Series:
Lectures, 1780-ca. 1790
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2Identifier: HUM 8
Scope and Contents:
Lecture 1, On the certainty, usefulness and ease of mathematical science, was delivered at a Harvard assembly on May 10, 1780, and subsequently read in 1784 and 1786. This lecture is an explanation of Enlightenment ideals regarding reason, science, and the pursuit of knowledge; it was the first lecture Williams gave at Harvard as Hollis Professor. Lecture 2, On a very uncommon darkness which took place in the New England States, May...