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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.
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.
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