Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Bøger
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
Spil og hobby
Hjem
Kategorier
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
FAQ
Konto
Kontakt
Kurv
  1. Bog
  2. Biografier
  3. Biografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin

The Experimental Self

- Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
Af: Jan Golinski Engelsk Hardback

The Experimental Self

- Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
Af: Jan Golinski Engelsk Hardback
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest background, Davy was propelled by his scientific accomplishments to a knighthood and the presidency of the Royal Society. An enigmatic figure to his contemporaries, Davy has continued to elude the efforts of biographers to classify him: poet, friend to Coleridge and Wordsworth, author of travel narratives and a book on fishing, chemist and inventor of the miners’ safety lamp. What are we to make of such a man?             In The Experimental Self, Golinski argues that Davy’s life is best understood as a prolonged process of self-experimentation. He follows Davy from his youthful enthusiasm for physiological experiment through his self-fashioning as a man of science in a period when the path to a scientific career was not as well-trodden as it is today. What emerges is a portrait of Davy as a creative fashioner of his own identity through a lifelong series of experiments in selfhood.
Vis mere
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
Normalpris
kr 315
Fragt: 39 kr
6 - 8 hverdage
20 kr
Pakkegebyr
God 4 anmeldelser på
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest background, Davy was propelled by his scientific accomplishments to a knighthood and the presidency of the Royal Society. An enigmatic figure to his contemporaries, Davy has continued to elude the efforts of biographers to classify him: poet, friend to Coleridge and Wordsworth, author of travel narratives and a book on fishing, chemist and inventor of the miners’ safety lamp. What are we to make of such a man?             In The Experimental Self, Golinski argues that Davy’s life is best understood as a prolonged process of self-experimentation. He follows Davy from his youthful enthusiasm for physiological experiment through his self-fashioning as a man of science in a period when the path to a scientific career was not as well-trodden as it is today. What emerges is a portrait of Davy as a creative fashioner of his own identity through a lifelong series of experiments in selfhood.
Vis mere
Se mere i:
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226351360
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 022635136X
Kategori: Biografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin
Udg. Dato: 11 maj 2016
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 11 maj 2016
Forfatter(e): Jan Golinski
Forfatter(e) Jan Golinski

Kategori Biografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin

ISBN-13 9780226351360

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 160mm

Udg. Dato 11 maj 2016

Oplagsdato 11 maj 2016

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

Vi anbefaler også
Rosamunde Pilcher Vejen hjem
Vejen hjem
Rosamunde Pilcher
66 kr
Kategori sammenhænge