The American botanist and politician Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), a diverse thinker whose scholarship encompassed natural history, the nature of the universe, and medicine, was also lieutenant gove...
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Cadwallader Colden was one of the many young Scottish doctors, merchants, lawyers, and ministers who sought their fortunes in eighteenth-century America; by the time of his death at the age of eighty-...
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Cadwallader Colden was an eighteenth-century virtuoso. From 1720 until his death in 1776, while occupying high offices in the royal government of New York, Colden wrote extensively on medicine, botany...
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Cadwallader Colden played many roles during his long life--philosopher, historian, naturalist, physicist, and statesman. His surviving papers hint that he would have preferred, above all, to be rememb...
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Cadwallader Colden
Cadwallader Colden