Article October 30, 2000 Issue

Science and Health: The first 125 years 1875-2000

with contributions from Bronson Alcott, Kittie Beck, C. W. Chadwick, I. C. Hodnet, Booker T. Washington, D. E. Goding, Mary Scranton Roe, Glenn D. Babcock, Robert James Weston, Thomas Henry Smith, Ernest F. Cook, Basile Alexandrovitch, Clara Solberg, Leonard Morgan Briggs, Jr., Vincent W. Brown, Waltraud Heidecke, Mary J. Morse, Ann B. Jenkins, S. Sunarti, Robert N. Cramer, Mark Thomas Word, Patricia Wilhoit, Merrily Allen Ozenghar

October 30, 1875—Mary Baker Eddy (then Glover) publishes Science and Health. It is 456 pages long and printed at W. F. Brown and Co. in Boston, Massachusetts. She sends copies of her book to influential thinkers of the time in cities like New York, London, Paris, Heidelberg.

One of these books goes to Bronson Alcott, a transcendentalist. Here is his response:

Today, Bronson Alcott might be more readily recognized as the father of Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women and other works of fiction. In his own time, however, Bronson Alcott was a major philosophical force. A leading abolitionist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, he lived in Concord, Massachusetts.

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