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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. OFFICIAL EMPLOYMENT. Assessor of Mines?Animus of Official Administration?Official Employment only a Stepping-stone to more important Scientific Schemes? Commission in Franconia?Appointment as Superintendent of Mines? Extension of Commission to January 1793?Visit to Berlin?' Flora Fribergensis'?Experiments on Sensitive Organisms?Commencement of Official Employment in Franconia, May 1793?Condition of Franconia?Free Schools for Miners?Practical Undertakings?Scientific Labours ? Appointment as Counsellor of Mines, 1794?Commission in Southern Prussia?Diplomatic Service under Mollendorf?Repeated Offers to become Director of the Silesian or Westphalian Mines and Salt Works?Refusal?Tour in Switzerland, 1795?Return and well-directed Industry?Dangerous Experiments?Visit to Berlin? Diplomatic Mission to Moreau, 1796?Proposals for further Official Sen-ice?Death of his Mother. Though the residence of Alexander von Humboldt at the School of Mines at Freiberg scarcely extended beyond eight months, from June 14, 1791, to February 26,1792, yet even this limited period sufficed to enable him to acquire every qualification then necessary for official employment in the Mining Department of the State. A farewell fete was given him by his fellow-students at Freiberg on February 26, and three days afterwards, on the 29th of the same month, a ministerial rescript, in fulfilment of the promise made by Heinitz, was issued from Berlin, appointing ' Alexander von Humboldt Assessor cum voto in the Administrative Department of Mines and Smelting Works, ' an appointment conferred upon him, in the words of the official document, ' on account of the valuable knowledge, both theoretical and practical, possessed by him in mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, technology, the arts of m..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217502955
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217502954
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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