MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01932cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2008017376
003 DLC
005 20090410102750.0
008 080416s2009 nyu b s001 0deng
010 $a 2008017376
020 $a0791476995 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780791476994 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn226389289
035 $a(OCoLC)226389289
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050 00 $aE377$b.P67 2009
082 00 $a973.5/5092$222
100 1 $aPortolano, Marlana.
245 14 $aThe passionate empiricist :$bthe eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the service of science /$cMarlana Portolano.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2009.
300 $axiii, 231 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index.
505 0 $aA classical voice for American science -- An American Cicero -- Toward a democratic science : institution-building and the statesman orator -- Increase and diffusion of knowledge : setting the stage for the Smithsonian debate -- Adams's arguments in the Smithsonian debate : a rhetorical analysis -- The queen of sciences and her democratic champion : Adams's promotion of astronomy -- Invention and discovery, rhetorically speaking.
600 10 $aAdams, John Quincy,$d1767-1848$xOratory.
600 10 $aAdams, John Quincy,$d1767-1848$xLanguage.
600 10 $aAdams, John Quincy,$d1767-1848$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aEloquence$vCase studies.
650 0 $aScience$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience and state$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1815-1861.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y1783-1865.