Winthrop, John

Winthrop, John.Winthrop papers Volume 3. Edited by A.B. Forbes. Boston (MA) Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943. 544p. 

Winthrop, John and Samuel Hartlib. Some correspondence of John Winthrop, Jr., and Samuel Hartlib edited by G.H. Turnbull. Proc Mass Hist Soc 72 (1957-1960) 37-67. Volume published 1963... 

John Winthrop, Jr., opens America s first chemical plant in Boston. They produce saltpeter (used m gunpowder) and alum (used in tanning). 

Benton, R.M. The John Winthrops and developing scientific thought in New England. Early Amer Lit 7, no. 3 (Winter 1973) 272-280. 

Black, Robert C. The younger John Winthrop. New York Columbia Univ P,... 

Black, Robert C. "The younger John Winthrop, precursor of the scientific enlightenment." In The Ibero-American enlightenment, ed. A.O. Aldridge, 309-316. Urbana (IL) Ilinois Univ P, 1971. 

Browne, C.A. Scientific notes from the books and letters of John Winthrop. Jr (1606- 1676). First governor of Connecticut. Isis 11, no. 2 (1928) 325-342. 

The Library and learning of John Winthrop, the younger. New York American Chemical Industries tercentenary, 1935. 6p. 

Wilkinson, Ronald Sterne. ""Hermes Christianus" John Winthrop, Jr. and chemical medicine in seventeenth century New England." In Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance, ed. Allen George Debus, i, 167-175., 1972. 

Wilkinson, Ronald Sterne. "John Winthrop, Jr. and the origins of American chemistry." PhD thesis, Michigan State Univ., 1969. 

Wilkinson, Ronald Sterne. The younger John Winthrop and seventeenth-century science. Faringdon Classey, 1975. 29p. 

Woodward, Walter William. "Prospero s America John Winthrop, Jr., alchemy, and the creation of New England culture (1606-1676)." PhD thesis, University of Connecticut, 2001. 

Wilkinson, Ronald Sterne. The alchemical library of John Winthrop, Jr. (1606-1676) and his descendants in Colonial America. Ambix 11, no. 1 (Feb 1963) 33-51. 

John P. Kaminski, A Necessary Evil Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution (Madison Madison House, 1995), p. 218 Winthrop Jordan, White over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1968), pp. 542-569. 

Niobium has a rather confusing history, starting in 1734 when the first governor of Connecticut, John Winthrop the Younger (1681—1747), discovered a new mineral in the iron mines of the New England. He named this new mineral columbite. Although he did not know what elements the mineral contained, he believed it contained a new and as yet unidentified element. Hence, he sent a sample to the British Museum in London for analysis. It seems that the delivery was mislaid and forgotten for many years until Charles Hatchett (1765-1847) found the old sample and determined that, indeed, a new element was present. Hatchett was unable to isolate this new element that he named columbium, which was derived from the name of Winthrop s mineral. 

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for the conference provided by the following Arkansas organizations and individuals Arkansas Electric Power Company Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company BEI Electronics, Inc. First Commercial National Bank General Dynamics Corporation John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center Union National Bank University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Whit Stevens and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Support for publication of this book was provided in part by the Citadel Research Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas. 

Governor John Winthrop the Younger (30, 46, 52) used to take great pleasure in examining minerals, and his manner of collecting them is best described in the quaint words o an early American poet ... 

John Winthrop the Younger, 1606-1676. First governor of Connecticut. Alchemist, manufacturing chemist, and physician. His grandson sent the columbite from which Charles Hatchett later isolated the metal columbium. 

From Waters A Sketch of the Life of John Winthrop the Younger ... 

Miss Sweet adds that when John Winthrop (1681—1747) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1734, he presented more than six hundred specimens (mostly minerals), together with a manuscript catalogue of them, to the Society.. . . Many of these specimens appear to have been incorporated into the Sloane collection, as several entries in the Winthrop... 

John Winthrop, 1681-1747. The specimen of columbite which Hatchett analyzed had been sent to the Royal Society by this John Winthrop, a grandson of John Winthrop, first governor of Connecticut. This portrait was reproduced from a copy in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Volume 40 (1737-38) of the Philosophical Transactions was dedicated to him by Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary of the Royal Society. 

The Massachusetts Historical Society has preserved a commonplace book which originally belonged to John Winthrop (1681-1747). In it there is a letter which Francis B. Winthrop wrote to his brother Thomas L. Winthrop of Boston on September 10, 1803, describing the spring at New London in connection with their grandfather. I think you must... 

Dedication of the English Translation of J. A. Cramer s Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals, London, 1741. It refers to John Winthrop (1681-1747), grandson of the first governor of Connecticut. 

In the letters of Governor John Winthrop the Younger, published with the Winthrop Papers of the Massachusetts Historical Collections, there is no mention of columbite. His interest in minerals, despite the difficulty of collecting them, is expressed, however, in a letter to Sir... 

From the existing evidence, it seems impossible to prove conclusively whether columbite was discovered by John Winthrop the Younger, first governor of Connecticut, and bequeathed to his grandson, John Winthrop (1681-1747), or whether it was originally discovered by the grandson. It is possible, however, that this question may some day be settled by the finding of hitherto unknown documents. 

Browne. C. A., Scientific notes from the books and letters of John Winthrop... 

John Winthrop the Younger once attended grammar school at this place. 

Figure 34 Radiometric map of a Heraeus Suntest CPS xenon chamber. Source Courtesy of John O Neill, Sanofi-Winthrop.

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