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Based on original source documents and interviews, Prince tells the story of Benjamin Silliman, arguably America's first scientist, pitting him against no less an adversary than Thomas Jefferson when science on this continent was still in its infancy.
"A captivating tale of America's entry into the world of science, told with such graceful prose and fascinating detail that at times you feel you are there."--Richard Z. Chesnoff, Huffington Post
"I enjoyed reading the book by Prince. She places the events surrounding the fall of the Weston meteorite in the social, geographic, and political context of the times. The resistance of Jefferson to believing in meteorites was as much a consequence of his feuding with the New England states as with the consequences of the Enlightenment to which he was committed. His letter of doubt about such things happening is a classic example of ambiguousness by politicians."
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