Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Existential projects and existential choice in science: science biography as an edifying genre
- 2 Life-paths: autobiography, science and the French Revolution
- 3 From science to wisdom: Humphry Davy's life
- 4 Robert Boyle and the dilemma of biography in the age of the Scientific Revolution
- 5 Alphabetical lives: scientific biography in historical dictionaries and encyclopaedias
- 6 The scientist as hero: public images of Michael Faraday
- 7 ‘Tactful organising and executive power’: biographies of Florence Nightingale for girls
- 8 Taking histories, medical lives: Thomas Beddoes and biography
- 9 The scientist as patron and patriotic symbol: the changing reputation of Sir Joseph Banks
- 10 Metabiographical reflections on Charles Darwin
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Existential projects and existential choice in science: science biography as an edifying genre
- 2 Life-paths: autobiography, science and the French Revolution
- 3 From science to wisdom: Humphry Davy's life
- 4 Robert Boyle and the dilemma of biography in the age of the Scientific Revolution
- 5 Alphabetical lives: scientific biography in historical dictionaries and encyclopaedias
- 6 The scientist as hero: public images of Michael Faraday
- 7 ‘Tactful organising and executive power’: biographies of Florence Nightingale for girls
- 8 Taking histories, medical lives: Thomas Beddoes and biography
- 9 The scientist as patron and patriotic symbol: the changing reputation of Sir Joseph Banks
- 10 Metabiographical reflections on Charles Darwin
- Index
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- Telling Lives in ScienceEssays on Scientific Biography, pp. 283 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996