Name: Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (en Inglés)
Price: 48.28 EUR
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Author: Shortland, Michael
ISBN: 9780521088909

portada Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Shortland, Michael

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0521088909

ISBN13

9780521088909

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia

Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (en Inglés)

Shortland, Michael (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (en Inglés)"

Images of scientists and ideas about science are often communicated to the public through historic biographies of eminent scientists, yet there has been little study of the development of scientific biography. Telling Lives brings together a collection of original essays by leading historians of science, several of them biographers, which explore for the first time the nature and development of scientific biography and its importance in forming our ideas about what scientists do, how science works, and why scientific biography remains popular. Theoretical and historical studies range from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, concentrating on such icons as Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Humphry Davy, Florence Nightingale and Sir Joseph Banks. With its broad sweep and careful, imaginative scholarship, this volume provides a timely and challenging examination of an important aspect of the culture of science that will be of special interest to historians of science, academics and students, and the general reader interested in the popularization of science.