Summary
A young chemist, later an Apostle, sets Joseph Smith’s teachings beside the science of 1908: matter and energy, the ether, the age of the earth, evolution, the Word of Wisdom and more. The Prophet, the revelations and every quoted scientist are read in their own voices.
The book
- Author
- John A. Widtsoe
- Date of the work
- Articles 1903–04; published as a book 1908
- Edition recorded
- 1908 edition (Salt Lake City: General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations)
- Listening time
- 4 h 26 min
- Chapters
- 22
Where this text comes from
Most chapters first appeared in the Improvement Era in 1903–04 as a series of articles, and were published as a book in 1908 by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations. The author’s marginal captions are read as short section titles; his footnotes appear as small numbers you can tap. The chemical diagram in Chapter 9 cannot be read aloud and is left out.
Text produced for Project Gutenberg by the Mormon Texts Project and its volunteers (released November 18, 2010).
Public domain
Public domain, free to share. The text of Joseph Smith as Scientist is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1908. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright there.
This site claims no copyright or trademark in the text. It uses no logos, trademarks or modern artwork of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or anyone else, and the cover picture is also in the public domain. Names such as “Book of Mormon” or the Church’s own name appear only to identify the book and its subject, and belong to their owners.
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