David Rittenhouse: Astronomer Patriot, 1732-1796 is a biography written by Edward Ford that details the life of David Rittenhouse, a prominent figure in American history. Rittenhouse was born in 1732 in Pennsylvania and went on to become a renowned astronomer, clockmaker, and...
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...