American Philosophical Society
- Resource Type
- Excerpt
Organization overview
- Authors
- Salamone, Frank
- Source
- Technical Innovation in American History : An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: Colonial America to 1865. 2019, p8-11.
- Subject
- National libraries
Museum exhibitions
Scholars
United States history
Scholarly publishing
Science
Learned societies
- Language
- English
American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS) was the United States' first learned society. It emerged from a society that Benjamin Franklin founded in 1743. Its goal, according to [...]