Benjamin Rush- An Eulogium Intended to Perpetuate the Memory of David Rittenhouse
BR-2022.010
RUSH, Benjamin. An Eulogium Intended to Perpetuate the Memory of David Rittenhouse, Late President of the American Philosophical Society...Delivered...Philadelphia, 17th December, 1796. Phila.: J. Ormrod, [1796].
From Catalog II
David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) was the astronomer and instrument maker who had been Franklin's most important scientific colleague in Philadelphia, and who after Franklin's death in 1790 became Rush's most intimate friend among the generation of Philadelphia Enlightenment figures. Rush's eulogy, delivered six years after Franklin's death and one year after Rittenhouse's, is a document of an entire world passing: the American Philosophical Society, the Pennsylvania Hospital, the networks of correspondence and collegiality that connected Franklin, Rush, Rittenhouse, Barton, and their circle. Rush is burying his generation.
Accession
BR-2022.010
Date
1796
Author / maker
Rush, Benjamin
Condition
46pp. Fine unopened copy, sewn as issued. In a cloth folding box.
Cite this object as“Benjamin Rush- An Eulogium Intended to Perpetuate the Memory of David Rittenhouse.” The Soiferman Collection, BR-2022.010, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. EIS LIBRIS, https://eislibris.com/objects/benjamin-rush-an-eulogium-intended-to-perpetuate-the-memory-of-david-rittenhouse (accessed [date]).
