Jonathan lisle autobiography of miss
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An Autobiography.
The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith
the Colored Evangelist;
Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels
in amerika, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and
Africa, as an Independent Missionary:
Electronic Edition.
Amanda Smith, 1837-1915
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text scanned (OCR) bygd Sarah Reuning
Images scanned bygd Sarah Reuning
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First edition, 1999
ca. 1.5MB
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1999.
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(title page) An Autobiography The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in amerika, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent missionär
Smith, Amanda
iii-xvi, 17-506
Chicago:
Meyer & B
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The Medical Training of Jonathan Couch: a study
Sir Humphry Davy
In the spring of 1801, Humphry Davy became assistant lecturer at the Royal Institution in London, with elevation to a professorship following in 1802. Humphry Davy gave his first lecture on April 25, 1801. These continued at varying intervals until 1812. According to the Dictionary of National Biography the laboratory at the Royal Institution from 1804 to 1812 was run by his cousin, Edmund Davy (1785-1857). It also states that John Davy (1790-1868), Humphry’s younger brother and biographer, was during this time studying medicine in Edinburgh. However, John Davy’s biography records that John was at the Royal Institution from 1808 to 1811. All three Davys were resident in London at the time Jonathan Couch was at medical school. Humphry Davy’s physician and friend was William Babington (1756-1833), who worked at Guy’s from 1795 to 1811, and who had a subsidiary interest in chemistry and mineralogy. Humphry dedicate
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Hypatia
4th-century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician
For other uses, see Hypatia (disambiguation).
Hypatia[a] (born c. 350–370 - March 415 AD)[1][4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt: at that time a major city of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Alexandria, Hypatia was a prominent thinker who taught subjects including philosophy and astronomy.[5], and in her lifetime was renowned as a great teacher and a wise counselor. Not the only fourth century Alexandrian female mathematician, Hypatia was preceded by Pandrosion.[6] However, Hypatia is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. She wrote a commentary on Diophantus's thirteen-volume Arithmetica, which may survive in part, having been interpolated into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga's treatise on conic sections, which has not survived. Many m