The voice of science British scientists on the lecture circuit in Gilded Age America /

"For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. As science inc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Finnegan, Diarmid A. (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Colección:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22tnmch
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Science lectures in an age of oratory
  • Science, speech and character : John Tyndall's lectures on light
  • Reason's rhetor : the scientific oratory of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Richard Proctor and the tempo of science
  • Alfred Russel Wallace, anticelebrity
  • Evolution's evangelist : the American addresses of Henry Drummond
  • Conclusion: Science, historically speaking.