The passionate empiricist [[electronic resource] ] : the eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the service of science / / Marlana Portolano
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The passionate empiricist [[electronic resource] ] : the eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the service of science / / Marlana Portolano
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.5/5092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Eloquence |
| Science - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| Science - Social aspects - United States - History | |
| Science and state - United States - History | |
| Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 1815-1861 |
| United States Intellectual life 1783-1865 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""The Passionate Empiricist""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A Classical Voice for American Science""; ""2. An American Cicero""; ""ADAMS THE PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC""; ""THE LECTURES ON RHETORIC: AN OUTLINE OF ADAMS'S THEORY""; ""COMPETING RHETORICAL TEACHINGS IN ADAMS'S TIME""; ""TWENTIETH-CENTURY RHETORICAL THEORY:AN AID FOR CONTEMPORARY READERS""; ""3.Toward a Democratic Science:Institution-Building and the Statesman Orator""; ""ADAMS'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT AS AN ORATOR FOR DEMOCRATIC SCIENCE""; ""THE PRESIDENCY AS PULPIT FOR SCIENCE"" |
| ""APPEALING TO THE AUDIENCE: EARLY AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD SCIENCE""""4. Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge:Setting the Stage for the Smithsonian Debate""; ""THE QUESTION OF JAMES SMITHSON'S INTENTIONS""; ""THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE ETHOS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY""; ""EARLY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AS MODELS IN DELIBERATIVE RHETORIC""; ""THE SMITHSONIAN AS LOCUS FOR COMMON KNOWLEDGE""; ""AN IMPERIOUS AND INDISPENSABLE OBLIGATION""; ""THE STATE OF THE CONTROVERSY""; ""5. Adams's Arguments in the Smithsonian Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis"" | |
| ""AN INVENTIVE STAGE: LETTERS, LEARNED ADVICE,AND PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS""""ASHER ROBBINS AND THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLAN""; ""ADAMS'S REFUTATIONS AND HIS FIRST ARGUMENTS FOR AN OBSERVATORY""; ""TWO PARTICULAR AUDIENCES AND ADAMS'S ROLE AS IMPARTIAL JUDGE""; ""FINANCIAL DELAYS TO ACTION: CATCH THE BEAR BEFORE YOU SELL HIS SKIN""; ""RESISTANCE TO ARGUMENTATION""; ""ARGUMENTS FOR A NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND THE AGRICULTURAL INFLUENCE""; ""THE GRAND LIBRARY PLAN""; ""COMPROMISE""; ""6. The Queen of Sciences and Her Democratic Champion: Adams's Promotion of Astronomy"" | |
| ""ADAMS'S CONGRESSIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR AN OBSERVATORY""""ADAMS'S PUBLIC SPEAKING TOURS ON ASTRONOMY""; ""7.Invention and Discovery, Rhetorically Speaking""; ""APPENDIX A. The Will of James Smithson""; ""APPENDIX B. An Act to Establish the Smithsonian Institution as it Passed into Law on August 10, 1846""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The passionate empiricist |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-7713-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825059703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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