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- Book Title
- Experimental Self : Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Scien
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- 9780226351360
- Publication Name
- Experimental Self : Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- Synthesis Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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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.
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022635136x
ISBN-13
9780226351360
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25038288308
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Experimental Self : Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Series
Synthesis Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
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Qd22.D3g65 2016
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Humphry Davy is an extremely important figure in the history of chemistry and has attracted a multitude of biographers--but Golinski's fresh, powerful insights are a very welcome addition. With The Experimental Self , Golinski wrestles with the noble challenge of evoking a particularly eminent man of science from the Second Scientific Revolution, when specialization and professional careers in science were still a relatively new idea. Golinski's way of making sense of this is novel: he perceives Davy as self-fashioning, presenting a number of personae--the enthusiast, the genius, the dandy, the discoverer, the philosopher, and the traveler. This yields a series of thematic chapters with a broadly chronological flow. Golinski does not attempt a full blow-by-blow biography but instead sees Davy as a fragmented figure, and so we are given a new, perceptive, sophisticated, and thought-provoking study in a readable style., One of the early biographies of Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was entitled The Mercurial Chemist ; mercurial being a not inappropriate description of his personality. In this latest biographical study Jan Golinski has decomposed Davy's personality into its six distinct elements. Drawing on the historiography of self-fashioning, Golinski argues that Davy was a master of self-creation and adapted his public personae to satisfy the different exigencies pertaining to various aspects of his career.... Golinski's analysis is highly successful in showing that many of the most important events in Davy's life come into focus through the lenses provided by his six personae. Moreover, Golinski sensitively explores the historical significance of each of these identities., This work is not merely another biography of Sir Humphry Davy. While Golinski has not aimed to be comprehensive, he thoroughly details the various personas of this fascinating scientific pioneer. In the period preceding 'professional' scientists, Davy progressed through a brilliant career, surmounting prejudices based on social class, ethnicity, and gender. Davy's personas, which were overlapping yet distinct and often self-described, ranged from enthusiast, genius, and dandy to discoverer, philosopher, and traveler. Davy was primarily a chemist and authored a chemistry textbook. However, his many travels inspired extensive writings on geology, agriculture, and poetry. The chemist was a controversial figure, and the established scientific society had difficulty in evaluating Davy and his varied personas. He was thought to both hinder and encourage the advancement of science, and was often criticized for his promotion of the education and scientific advancement of women. Golinski offers a superb, well-rounded view of Davy's life and contributions to the field of science. This work will be enjoyed by scientists, historians, and educators. Recommended., Golinski...unpicks the chemist's complexities and contradictions. As a gifted scientist and charismatic personality, Davy has been a magnet for biographers for two centuries. Golinski takes a new approach. The Experimental Self does not claim to be a comprehensive biography. Instead, it investigates the different identities that Davy constructed, along with those ascribed to him by others: enthusiast, genius, dandy, discoverer, philosopher, traveller. Golinski thus provides a fluid view of Davy, hopping back and forth between different periods of his life. It's a refreshing approach., Golinski's study should lay to rest the idea that a biography of Davy (or indeed of anyone else) should strive to present a coherent and consistent individual. People are generally not like that, but Davy is perhaps an extreme example., Golinski has written an outstanding study of the English chemist Humphry Davy. The Experimental Self is significant in two regards: first in the distinction of the six identities discussed, and second in the evidence of Davy's self-inventions. Golinski tells Davy's life as a thematic narrative, a form that is both true to its subject and gripping in its presentation. Anyone with an interest in biography or scientific genius will find The Experimental Self to be fascinating and persuasive., "One of the early biographies of Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was entitled The Mercurial Chemist ; mercurial being a not inappropriate description of his personality. In this latest biographical study Jan Golinski has decomposed Davy's personality into its six distinct elements. Drawing on the historiography of self-fashioning, Golinski argues that Davy was a master of self-creation and adapted his public personae to satisfy the different exigencies pertaining to various aspects of his career.... Golinski's analysis is highly successful in showing that many of the most important events in Davy's life come into focus through the lenses provided by his six personae. Moreover, Golinski sensitively explores the historical significance of each of these identities." , Golinski...unpicks the chemist's complexities and contradictions. As a gifted scientist and charismatic personality, Davy has been a magnet for biographers for two centuries. Golinski takes a new approach. The Experimental Self does not claim to be a comprehensive biography. Instead, it investigates the different identities that Davy constructed, along with those ascribed to him by others: enthusiast, genius, dandy, discoverer, philosopher, traveller. Golinski thus provides a fluid view of Davy, hopping back and forth between different periods of his life. It's a refreshing approach., This work is not merely another biography of Sir Humphry Davy. While Golinski has not aimed to be comprehensive, he thoroughly details the various personas of this fascinating scientific pioneer. In the period preceding 'professional' scientists, Davy progressed through a brilliant career, surmounting prejudices based on social class, ethnicity, and gender. Davy's personas, which were overlapping yet distinct and often self-described, ranged from enthusiast, genius, and dandy to discoverer, philosopher, and traveler. Davy was primarily a chemist and authored a chemistry textbook. However, his many travels inspired extensive writings on geology, agriculture, and poetry. The chemist was a controversial figure, and the established scientific society had difficulty in evaluating Davy and his varied personas. He was thought to both hinder and encourage the advancement of science, and was often criticized for his promotion of the education and scientific advancement of women. Golinski offers a superb, well-rounded view of Davy's life and contributions to the field of science. This work will be enjoyed by scientists, historians, and educators. Recommended., ""Golinski...unpicks the chemist's complexities and contradictions. As a gifted scientist and charismatic personality, Davy has been a magnet for biographers for two centuries. Golinski takes a new approach. The Experimental Self does not claim to be a comprehensive biography. Instead, it investigates the different identities that Davy constructed, along with those ascribed to him by others: enthusiast, genius, dandy, discoverer, philosopher, traveller. Golinski thus provides a fluid view of Davy, hopping back and forth between different periods of his life. It's a refreshing approach.", Golinski has written an outstanding study of the English chemist Humphry Davy. The Experimental Self is significant in two regards: first in the distinction of the six identities discussed, and second in the evidence of Davy's self-inventions. Golinski tells Davy's life as a thematic narrative, a form that is both true to its subject and gripping in its presentation. Anyone with an interest in biography or scientific genius will find The Experimental Self to be fascinating and persuasive., Humphry Davy is an extremely important figure in the history of chemistry, and has attracted a multitude of biographers--but Golinski's fresh, powerful insights are a very welcome addition. With The Experimental Self , Golinski wrestles with the noble challenge of evoking a particularly eminent man of science in from the Second Scientific Revolution, when specialization and professional careers in science were still a relatively new idea. Golinski's way of making sense of this is novel: he perceives Davy as self-fashioning, presenting a number of personae--the enthusiast, the genius, the dandy, the discoverer, the philosopher, and the traveler. This yields a series of thematic chapters with a broadly chronological flow. Golinski does not attempt a full blow-by-blow biography, but instead sees Davy as a fragmented figure, and so we are given a new, perceptive, sophisticated, and thought-provoking study in a readable style., Engagingly written and insightful, Golinski's The Experimental Self explores the ways in which the iconic Romantic figure and man of science Humphry Davy consciously wove together the identities of a chemist, philosopher, dandy, traveler, poet, genius, and discoverer. Golinski brilliantly reveals a world in which such experimentation and self-invention were necessary, before the establishment of modern science with its institutions and career paths. While Davy has often been treated as an enigmatic figure, Golinski makes sense of his life and sheds light on his many modes of being by eschewing traditional narrative biography and its demands for continuity of selfhood, instead treating separately the many selves of a single individual. It is, therefore, a book that belongs alongside recent histories of science that explore the figure of the scientist and the emergence of science as a professional enterprise, but it is also one that should be read by anyone with an interest in Romanticism, biography, or the nature of selfhood., Given the striking quality of the insights provided in this book, I hope that Golinski will have more to say on Humphry Davy as subject, and his making as a man of science., Golinski's biography of Davy is explicitly not comprehensive, although it includes many of the salient details of Davy's life and work. It seeks to tell us how, in an experiment that lasted throughout his life, he constructed and reconstructed himself. Golinski's focus is on Davy as enthusiast, genius, dandy, discoverer, philosopher and traveller....His great enthusiasm was for using himself as an experimental subject., This book makes an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century science by showing how closely the development of scientific disciplines was intertwined with, and to some extent dependent on, the complexities of personal self-fashioning.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Enthusiast 2. The Genius 3. The Dandy 4. The Discoverer 5. The Philosopher 6. The Traveler Epilogue: A Fragmented Legacy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Europe / Great Britain / General, History, Science & Technology
Lccn
2015-042392
Dewey Decimal
540.92 B
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, History
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