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Author Portolano, Marlana.

Title The passionate empiricist : the eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the service of science / Marlana Portolano
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages)
Contents A 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index
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Subject Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Oratory
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Language
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. fast (OCoLC)fst00046795
Adams, John Quincy. swd
Subject Eloquence -- Case studies
Science -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Science and state -- United States -- History
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Eloquence.
Intellectual life.
Language and languages.
Oratory.
Political and social views.
Politics and government
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
Science and state.
Science -- Political aspects.
Science -- Social aspects.
Rhetorik
Naturwissenschaften
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140427
United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365
Subject United States.
USA
Genre/Form Case studies.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008017376
ISBN 9780791477137
0791477134