The voice of science : British scientists on the lecture circuit in gilded age America / Diarmid A. Finnegan.
Pubblicazione:
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh press, c2021.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 286 p. : ritr. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. Introduction: Science lectures in an age of oratory. 1. Science, speech and character: John Tyndall's Lectures on light 2. Reason's rhetor: the scientific oratory of Thomas Henry Huxley 3. Richard proctor and the tempo of science 4. Alfred Russel Wallace: anticelebrity 5. Evolution's Evangelist: the American addresses of Henry Drummond. Conclusion: Science, historically speaking. Notes. Bibliography. Index
