The Passionate Empiricist The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science 1st Edition by Marlana Portolano ISBN 0791477134 9780791477137
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ISBN 10: 0791477134
ISBN 13: 9780791477137
Author: Marlana Portolano
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
This book introduces readers to the role that classical oratory played in changing early American attitudes about pure scientific research. Marlana Portolano investigates the impact of John Quincy Adams’s oratorical campaigns on the origins of government-funded science in America, with a special focus on his classical theory of rhetorical engagement and civic duty.
Table of contents:
1. A Classical Voice for American Science
2. An American Cicero
3.Toward a Democratic Science:Institution-Building andthe Statesman Orator
4. Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge:Setting the Stage for theSmithsonian Debate
5. Adams’s Arguments in the Smithsonian Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis
6. The Queen of Sciences and Her Democratic Champion: Adams’s Promotion of Astronomy
7.Invention and Discovery, Rhetorically Speaking
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