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(3.25) | Ingen | "One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike. Irmscher sheds new light on Agassiz's fascinating partnership with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a science writer in her own right who would go on to become the first president of Radcliffe College. But there's a dark side to the story. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassiz's racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The book's potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassiz's stubborn resistance to evolution. A fascinating life story, both inspiring and cautionary, for anyone interested in the history of American ideas"--Jacket.… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. For Daniel Aaron On the occasion of his one hundredth birthday With love | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. In September 1866, the American consul to Mauritius, fresh off the boat, paid a visit to the Boston publisher James T. Field. (Introduction) On September 6, 1873, a chilly Saturday morning, Louis Agassiz, professor of zoology and geology at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, left his house at 36 Quincey Street. | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Almost to the day, she died a month after Louis Agassiz, the prophet of the kind of education she had institutionalized at Radcliffe College, would have turned one hundred.
(The reference is to Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, wife of Louis Agassiz, who survived him by a quarter of a century.) (Klik for at vise Advarsel: Kan indeholde afsløringer.) But when Pound, some years later, was hoping to bring The Cantos to a close, his gigantic attempt to, in his words "make Cosmos" and to do for poetry what Agassiz had tried to do for science, he found himself pleading only for a "little light" - any light, really, - that would lead him, and us, "back to splendor." (Epilogue) (Klik for at vise Advarsel: Kan indeholde afsløringer.) | |
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▾Referencer Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelskIngen ▾Bogbeskrivelser "One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike. Irmscher sheds new light on Agassiz's fascinating partnership with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a science writer in her own right who would go on to become the first president of Radcliffe College. But there's a dark side to the story. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassiz's racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The book's potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassiz's stubborn resistance to evolution. A fascinating life story, both inspiring and cautionary, for anyone interested in the history of American ideas"--Jacket. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold
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