New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning 1st Edition Istvan Hargittai

1. Explorers and Naturalists

Explorers in the Customs House

Christopher Columbus

Giovanni da Verrazano

Henry Hudson

The Purchase of Manhattan

Hall of Fame of Great Americans

Statues of Surrogate’s Court

Goethe and Humboldt

Historical Societies

Brooklyn Historical Society

New-York Historical Society

New York Academy of Sciences

New York Public Library

American Museum of Natural History

Weather Reporting

Times Capsule at the American Museum of Natural History

Nobel Obelisk

The Globe

New York Hall of Science

Four Continents—Customs House

The Bronx Zoo (New York Zoo)

Botanical Gardens

Discovery

Notes

2. Scientists and Innovators

Foundations

Astronomy and Space Research

Electricity

Telecommunication

Transportation

By Water

By Rail

By Air

Other Areas

Marie Curie in New York

Fermentation

Architecture and Civil Engineering

Notes

3. Learning

Educators in the Hall of Fame

Poppenhusen Institute

Ethical Culture School

High Schools

Bronx High School of Science

Brooklyn Technical High School

Stuyvesant High School

Townsend Harris High School

Abraham Lincoln High School

Erasmus Hall High School

Far Rockaway High School

Regis High School

James Madison High School

DeWitt Clinton High School

Walton High School

More High Schools

Notes

4. Aiming Higher in Education

Institute of Mechanics

Cooper Union

City College of New York

Hunter College

Brooklyn College

CUNY Graduate Center

New York University

NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Notes

5. City of Medicine

Bellevue Hospital

German Dispensary—Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital

New York Hospital

New York University School of Medicine

State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn

New York–Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Bronx Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

New York Biomedicine Centers

New York Medical College

Woman’s Health Protective Association

New York City Health Building

New York Academy of Medicine

Individuals

In the Bronx Hall of Fame

William J. MacNeven

J. Marion Sims—Controversy

Edward R. Squibb

Alexander J. C. Skene

Conquest of Disease

Polio Eradication

Notes

6. The Rockefeller University

Notes

7. Columbia University

Mining and Other Applications

Chemistry

Physics

Anthropology

Barnard College

Teachers College

Notes

8. Roaming the Streets

Athena and Minerva

Four Basic Elements

Wisdom

Moses, Confucius, and Other Sages

Prudence and Wisdom

Owls

Snakes

Rockefeller Center

Communication with Wings and without

Alice in Wonderland

Helices

Geometrical Shapes

Spheres

Buckyballs

Star Polyhedra

Disappearing Polyhedron

Cubes

Cylinders

Sundials

Armillary Spheres

Reading and Books

Gates of a Public School

Einstein in Churches

Other Art

Science in Fiction

Cornelia Street Café

Plowshares from Swords

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Index of Artists and Architects

Also by the Authors