For the American Civil War officer, see Amos Beebe Eaton.
Amos Eaton
Born
(1776-05-17)May 17, 1776
Chatham, New York
Died
May 10, 1842(1842-05-10) (aged 66)
Troy, New York
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Williams College
Known for
Botany
Surveying
Spouses
Polly Thomas
(m. 1799; died 1803)
[1]: p. 195
Sally Cady
(m. 1803; died 1816)
[1]: p. 196
Anna Bradley
(m. 1816; died 1826)
[1]: p. 198
Alice Johnson
(m. 1827)
[1]: p. 226
Children
Twelve[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Botany
Geology
Mineralogy
Institutions
Williams College Castleton Medical College Rensselaer School
Author abbrev. (botany)
Eaton
Signature
Amos Eaton (May 17, 1776 – May 10, 1842) was an American botanist, geologist, and educator who is considered the founder of the modern scientific prospectus in education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal arts tradition of classics, theology, lecture, and recitation.[2][3] Eaton co-founded the Rensselaer School in 1824 with Stephen van Rensselaer III "in the application of science to the common purposes of life".[3][4] His books in the eighteenth century were among the first published for which a systematic treatment of the United States was attempted, and in a language that all could read.[5] His teaching laboratory for botany in the 1820s was the first of its kind in the country.[6][7][8][9] Eaton's popular lectures and writings inspired numerous thinkers, in particular women, whom he encouraged to attend his public talks on experimental philosophy.[10] Emma Willard would found the Troy Female Seminary (Emma Willard School), and Mary Mason Lyon, the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (Mount Holyoke College). Eaton held the rank of senior professor at Rensselaer until his death in 1842.[10][11]
^ abcdeBallard, Harlan Hoge (1897). Amos Eaton. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Press of the Sun Printing Company. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
^Reynolds, Terry S. (1992). "The Education of Engineers in America before the Morrill Act of 1862". History of Education Quarterly. 32 (4): 459–482. doi:10.2307/368959. JSTOR 368959. S2CID 143767294.
^ abGillett, Margaret (1962). "Discovery of an Unlost Letter: The Beginning of an Epoch in American Higher Education". Journal of Higher Education. 33 (4). Ohio State University Press: 200–206. doi:10.2307/1978187. JSTOR 1978187.
^Ricketts, Palmer C. (1914). History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 1824-1914. New York: J. Wiley & Sons. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
^Youmans, William Jay (1896). Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of Their Lives and Scientific Work. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
^Smallwood, William Martin (1937). "Amos Eaton, Naturalist". New York History. 18 (2): 167–188. JSTOR 23134798.
^Good, H. G. (1941). "Amos Eaton (1776-1842)". Scientific Monthly. 53: 464–469.
^McAllister, E. M. (1941). Amos Eaton: Scientist and Educator (1776-1842). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
^Rezneck, S. (1971). In Charles Coulston Gillispie [ed.], Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 4. NY: Scribner & Sons.
^ abRudolph, Emanuel (1996). "History of the Botanical Teaching Laboratory in the United States". American Journal of Botany. 83 (5): 661–671. doi:10.2307/2445926. JSTOR 2445926.
^Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1887). Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1886. Troy, NY: W.H. Young. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
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1807, AmosEaton in 1817, Michel Étienne Descourtilz in 1826, and Eaton and Wright in 1840. Some less explicit alternatives, like Vexillaria (Eaton 1817)...
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moved from the Pittsburgh Building to the more spacious AmosEaton building. The AmosEaton building offered sufficient space for a little over 30 years...
trees. This taxon was originally described as Hydnum chrysorhizum by AmosEaton in 1817. Tellería MT, Dueñas M, Martín MP. "The genus Hydnophlebia (Polyporales...
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Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2018. AmosEaton & John Wright (1840). North American Botany (A Manual of Botany Edition...
State Principal engineer Benjamin Wright Other engineer(s) Canvass White, AmosEaton Construction began July 4, 1817; 206 years ago (1817-07-04) (at Rome,...
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his B.A. and M.A. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from professor AmosEaton and his M.D. from Cincinnati College in 1836. Prior to receiving his M...
Jay Gerard Troost David Rogerson Williams Jesse Bledsoe James Miller AmosEaton Dennis Pennington William Reed Stephen Longfellow Samuel Thatcher January...
1830) May 13 – Jett Thomas, American militia general (d. 1817) May 17 – AmosEaton, American botanist (d. 1842) May 18 – Dennis Pennington, American politician...
of the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C. from 1995 to 2004 AmosEaton 1799, co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Peter Elbow 1957...
2307/3123061. JSTOR 3123061. Spanagel, David I. (2014). DeWitt Clinton and AmosEaton: Geology and Power in Early New York. Johns Hopkins University Press....
exsiccata series Algae exsiccatae Americae Borealis (1877-1889). Eaton is the grandson of AmosEaton. He also worked in Utah, contributing to the US-Mexican Boundary...
specimens collected by Charles Whitlow in Canada near Niagara Falls. AmosEaton published a description of the plant as Monotropa procera at almost the...
Niagara in the War of 1812. His most lasting achievement was to found, with AmosEaton, the Rensselaer School, which developed into the present-day Rensselaer...
with a highly variable length (2.2 - 27 μm). The term was introduced by AmosEaton in his Botanical Dictionary in 1836. Engler and Prantl included it as...
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