The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden

By John M. Dixon

Subjects: Politics and government, Intellectual life, Political activity, Colden, cadwallader, 1688-1776, New york (n.y.), intellectual life, New york (state), politics and government, Philosophy, Political participation

Description: "Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"--