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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- A Classical Voice for American Science 1
- An American Cicero 13
- Toward a Democratic Science: Institution-Building and the Statesman Orator 53
- Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge: Setting the Stage for the Smithsonian Debate 77
- Adams’s Arguments in the Smithsonian Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis 113
- The Queen of Sciences and Her Democratic Champion: Adams’s Promotion of Astronomy 163
- Invention and Discovery, Rhetorically Speaking 181
- The Will of James Smithson 191
- An Act to Establish the Smithsonian Institution as it Passed into Law on August 10, 1846 193
- Notes 199
- Bibliography 221
- Index 229
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- A Classical Voice for American Science 1
- An American Cicero 13
- Toward a Democratic Science: Institution-Building and the Statesman Orator 53
- Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge: Setting the Stage for the Smithsonian Debate 77
- Adams’s Arguments in the Smithsonian Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis 113
- The Queen of Sciences and Her Democratic Champion: Adams’s Promotion of Astronomy 163
- Invention and Discovery, Rhetorically Speaking 181
- The Will of James Smithson 191
- An Act to Establish the Smithsonian Institution as it Passed into Law on August 10, 1846 193
- Notes 199
- Bibliography 221
- Index 229
