Telling lives in science essays on scientific biography
Images of scientists and ideas about science are often communicated to the public through historic biographies of eminent scientists, yet there has been little study of the development of scientific biography. Telling Lives brings together a collection of original essays by leading historians of sci...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1996.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45465940*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo
- 1. Existential projects and existential choice in science: science biography as an edifying genre / Thomas Soderqvist
- 2. Life-paths: autobiography, science and the French Revolution / Dorinda Outram
- 3. From science to wisdom: Humphry Davy's life / David Knight
- 4. Robert Boyle and the dilemma of biography in the age of the Scientific Revolution / Michael Hunter
- 5. Alphabetical lives: scientific biography in historical dictionaries and encyclopaedias / Richard Yeo
- 6. The scientist as hero: public images of Michael Faraday / Geoffrey Cantor
- 7. 'Tactful organising and executive power': biographies of Florence Nightingale for girls / Martha Vicinus
- 8. Taking histories, medical lives: Thomas Beddoes and biography / Roy Porter
- 9. The scientist as patron and patriotic symbol: the changing reputation of Sir Joseph Banks / John Gascoigne
- 10. Metabiographical reflections on Charles Darwin / James Moore.
