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| adam_text | Contents
List ofFigures and Table vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Series Editor s Preface xiii
Preface xv
Introduction: A New Look at the Genre of Scientific Biography 1
Thomas Söderqvist
1 Presenting a Life as a Guide to Living: Ancient Accounts
of the Life of Pythagoras 17
Liba Taub
2 Biography as a Route to Understanding
Early Modern Natural Philosophy 37
Stephen Gaukroger
3 Neither Genius nor Context Incarnate: Norman Lockyer,
Jules Janssen and the Astrophysical Seif 51
David Aubin and Charlotte Bigg
4 Framing the Evidence: Scientific Biography and Portraiture 71
Patricia Fora
5 Biography and the Reward System in Science 93
Thomas L. Hankins
6 The Tragedy of Comrade Hessen: Biography as
Historical Discourse 105
Christopher A.J. Chilvers
7 Received Wisdom in Biography: Tycho Biographies
from Gassendi to Christiansen 121
Helge Kragh
8 The Programmatic Functionof Biography:
Readings of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Biographies of Niels Stensen (Steno) 13 5
Signe Lindskov Hansen
vi Book Title
9 Discriminating Days? Partiality and Impartiality
in Nineteenth Century Biographies of Newton 155
Rebekah Higgitt
10 Biographies as Mediators between Memory
and History in Science 173
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent
11 La Mauvaise Herbe : Unwanted Biographies
Both Great and Small 185
Jacalyn Duffin
12 Primary Suspects: Reflections on Autobiography and
Life Stories in the History of Molecular Biology 199
Rena Selya
13 Pas de Deux: The Biographer and the
Living Biographical Subject 207
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
14 Resuscitating the Great Doctor : The Career of
Biography in Medical History 221
Beth Linker
15 No Genre of History Fell Under More Odium than
that of Biography : The Delicate Relations between
Scientific Biography and the Historiography of Science 241
Thomas Söderqvist
Index 263
List of Figures and Table
Figures
1.1 Pythagoras, depicted on a coin from Samos dating
from the reign of Trajan Decius (249 251 CE).
© The Trustees of The British Museum. 21
3.1 Alphee Dubois medal issued by the Paris Academy of
Sciences in 1872 in honour of Jules Janssen s and
J. Norman Lockyer s parallel discovery of a spectrocopic
method for seeing the Sun s prominences. 52
4.1 Godfrey Kneller, Isaac Newton (1689) (Thomas Oldham Barlow s
mezzotint of 1868). © Wellcome Institute Library, London. 72
4.2 Mason Chamberlin, Benjamin Franklin (1762)
(Charles Turner s mezzotint, post 1840). © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 74
4.3 Thomas Phillips, Joseph Banks (1808). © The Royal Society. 77
4.4 Engraving after Benjamin West, Joseph Banks (1773).
© The Royal Society. 78
4.5 Maggi Hambling, Dorothy Hodgkin (1985). © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 80
4.6 Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Banks (1772). © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 81
4.7 Matthew Darly, The Macaroni Print Shop (1772).
© The Trustees of The British Museum. 83
4.8 John Collier, Charles Darwin (1881).
© National Portrait Gallery, London. 85
Table
11.1 Biography and historical articles in Medline, 1966 2002. 187
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Contents
List ofFigures and Table vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Series Editor 's Preface xiii
Preface xv
Introduction: A New Look at the Genre of Scientific Biography 1
Thomas Söderqvist
1 Presenting a 'Life' as a Guide to Living: Ancient Accounts
of the Life of Pythagoras 17
Liba Taub
2 Biography as a Route to Understanding
Early Modern Natural Philosophy 37
Stephen Gaukroger
3 Neither Genius nor Context Incarnate: Norman Lockyer,
Jules Janssen and the Astrophysical Seif 51
David Aubin and Charlotte Bigg
4 Framing the Evidence: Scientific Biography and Portraiture 71
Patricia Fora
5 Biography and the Reward System in Science 93
Thomas L. Hankins
6 The Tragedy of Comrade Hessen: Biography as
Historical Discourse 105
Christopher A.J. Chilvers
7 Received Wisdom in Biography: Tycho Biographies
from Gassendi to Christiansen 121
Helge Kragh
8 The Programmatic Functionof Biography:
Readings of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Biographies of Niels Stensen (Steno) 13 5
Signe Lindskov Hansen
vi Book Title
9 Discriminating Days? Partiality and Impartiality
in Nineteenth Century Biographies of Newton 155
Rebekah Higgitt
10 Biographies as Mediators between Memory
and History in Science 173
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent
11 'La Mauvaise Herbe': Unwanted Biographies
Both Great and Small 185
Jacalyn Duffin
12 Primary Suspects: Reflections on Autobiography and
Life Stories in the History of Molecular Biology 199
Rena Selya
13 Pas de Deux: The Biographer and the
Living Biographical Subject 207
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
14 Resuscitating the 'Great Doctor': The Career of
Biography in Medical History 221
Beth Linker
15 'No Genre of History Fell Under More Odium than
that of Biography': The Delicate Relations between
Scientific Biography and the Historiography of Science 241
Thomas Söderqvist
Index 263
List of Figures and Table
Figures
1.1 Pythagoras, depicted on a coin from Samos dating
from the reign of Trajan Decius (249 251 CE).
© The Trustees of The British Museum. 21
3.1 Alphee Dubois' medal issued by the Paris Academy of
Sciences in 1872 in honour of Jules Janssen's and
J. Norman Lockyer's parallel discovery of a spectrocopic
method for seeing the Sun's prominences. 52
4.1 Godfrey Kneller, Isaac Newton (1689) (Thomas Oldham Barlow's
mezzotint of 1868). © Wellcome Institute Library, London. 72
4.2 Mason Chamberlin, Benjamin Franklin (1762)
(Charles Turner's mezzotint, post 1840). © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 74
4.3 Thomas Phillips, Joseph Banks (1808). © The Royal Society. 77
4.4 Engraving after Benjamin West, Joseph Banks (1773).
© The Royal Society. 78
4.5 Maggi Hambling, Dorothy Hodgkin (1985). © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 80
4.6 Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Banks (1772). © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 81
4.7 Matthew Darly, The Macaroni Print Shop (1772).
© The Trustees of The British Museum. 83
4.8 John Collier, Charles Darwin (1881).
© National Portrait Gallery, London. 85
Table
11.1 'Biography' and 'historical articles' in Medline, 1966 2002. 187 |
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