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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2021]
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| Serie: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22tnmch |
Sommario:
- 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.