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4 unusual facts about John William Draper


Antonio Comellas y Cluet

Before 1880 he published Demostración de la armonía entre la religión católica y la ciencia, a work of an apologetic nature, written to refute John William Draper's Conflict Between Science and Religion.

John R. Park

In 1855 Park entered medical school at New York University where he was a student of the chemist, historian and philosopher, John William Draper.

Science and Religion in American Thought

Key figures historically illustrated in the text are John William Draper, a late 19th-century positivist; Andrew Dickson White, the founding President of Cornell University; John Fiske, a late 19th-century American philosopher; William James; David Starr Jordan, President and later Chancellor of Stanford University; and John Dewey.

Silver Center

Samuel Colt developed the revolver and Samuel Morse invented the telegraph; John William Draper in 1840 took the first photograph in the United States in the original Main Building that the present structure replaced.



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John William Draper House

Henry Draper, 1837-1882, created an observatory on the estate of his father, John William Draper.