Michael Shortland / Richard Yeo (eds.)

Telling Lives in Science

Essays on Scientific Biography
Herausgeber: Shortland, Michael; Yeo, Richard R.; Yeo, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collects together original essays by leading historians of science on the nature and development of scientific biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521433235
• ISBN-10: 0521433231
• Artikelnr.: 24331161

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo
1. Existential projects and existential choice in science: science biography as an edifying genre Thomas Söderqvist
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 encyclopedias 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 Joseph Banks John Gascoigne
10. Metabiographical reflections on Charles Darwin James Moore
Index.