Doctoral Dissertation Research in History and Philosophy    of Science
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Hugh R. Slotten, Dissertation Student; Topic: "A History of the                 Coast Survey of the United States in the Nineteenth Century"                                                                                                    Scholars have generally acknowledged that the Coast Survey of the               US under the command of Alexander Dallas Bache from 1843 to 1867                was one of the most powerful institutions supporting science in                 the antebellum period.  A comprehensive and analytic history of                 the Coast Survey, however, has not yet been written.  The Coast                 Survey was first authorized in 1807 as a temporary agency of the                federal government that would survey the country's coastlines in                the interests of commerce and navigation. In the period preceding               Bache's tenure as superintendent, the Coast Survey attained only                minor significance;  but under Bache's command, the Coast Survey                grew to become the most influential scientific institution of the               antebellum period.                                                                                                                                              Because geographical (primarily geophysical) research fit best                  into the range of the Survey's mandate, this kind of science                    expanded under Coast Survey patronage. the Coast Survey also                    served a unique educational function in this period, training                   civilians and military officers in scientific methods.  Above                   all, however, Bache's Coast Survey functioned as a vital center                 for the growth and professionalization of the emerging scientific               community and set a precedent for future public policy towards                  the financing of scientific research.
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