University Of Michigan

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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

University Of Michigan


Shortly once the Territory of Michigan was formed in 1805, several of its leading voters recognized the requirement for a public education system. As early as 1806, Father Gabriel Richard, international organization agency ran several schools around port, had requested land for a university from the governor and judges appointed by the President to administer the territory. 
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Governor William Hull and choose politician B. Woodward passed AN act in 1809 to see public college districts, but this early strive came to little.[4] Woodward harbored a dream of classifying all human knowledge (which he termed encathol epistemia), and mentioned the subject beside his friend and mentor us President at Monticello in 1814.[5]

Augustus Woodward's written list of the thirteen didaxiim of the Catholepistemiad
In 1817, Woodward written a territorial act establishing a "Catholepistemiad, or University, of Michigania," organized into thirteen entirely completely different professorships, or didaxiim, following the organisation he had disclosed the year before in his A System of Universal Science.

 He fictional names for these using a mix of Greek and Latin in order that they'll somewhat be "engrafted, whereas not variation, into every trendy language": Anthropoglossica (Literature), Mathematica (Mathematics), Physiognostica (Natural History), Physiosophica (Natural Philosophy), Astronomia (Astronomy), Chymia (Chemistry), Iatrica (Medicine), Å’conomica (Economical Sciences), Ethica (Ethics), Polemitactica
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