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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.
1. A Classical Voice for American Science
2. An American Cicero
ADAMS THE PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC
THE LECTURES ON RHETORIC: AN OUTLINE OF ADAMS’S THEORY
COMPETING RHETORICAL TEACHINGS IN ADAMS’S TIME
TWENTIETH-CENTURY RHETORICAL THEORY:AN AID FOR CONTEMPORARY READERS
3.Toward a Democratic Science:Institution-Building andthe Statesman Orator
ADAMS’S EARLY DEVELOPMENT AS AN ORATORFOR DEMOCRATIC SCIENCE
THE PRESIDENCY AS PULPIT FOR SCIENCE
APPEALING TO THE AUDIENCE: EARLY AMERICANATTITUDES TOWARD SCIENCE
4. Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge:Setting the Stage for theSmithsonian Debate
THE QUESTION OF JAMES SMITHSON’S INTENTIONS
THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE ETHOS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
EARLY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AS MODELS IN DELIBERATIVE RHETORIC
THE SMITHSONIAN AS LOCUS FOR COMMON KNOWLEDGE
AN IMPERIOUS AND INDISPENSABLE OBLIGATION
THE STATE OF THE CONTROVERSY
5. Adams’s Arguments in the Smithsonian Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis
AN INVENTIVE STAGE: LETTERS, LEARNED ADVICE,AND PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS
ASHER ROBBINS AND THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLAN
ADAMS’S REFUTATIONS AND HIS FIRST ARGUMENTS FOR AN OBSERVATORY
TWO PARTICULAR AUDIENCES AND ADAMS’S ROLE AS IMPARTIAL JUDGE
FINANCIAL DELAYS TO ACTION: “CATCH THE BEAR BEFORE YOU SELL HIS SKIN”
RESISTANCE TO ARGUMENTATION
ARGUMENTS FOR A NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMAND THE AGRICULTURAL INFLUENCE
THE GRAND LIBRARY PLAN
COMPROMISE
6. The Queen of Sciences and Her Democratic Champion: Adams’s Promotion of Astronomy
ADAMS’S CONGRESSIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR AN OBSERVATORY
ADAMS’S PUBLIC SPEAKING TOURS ON ASTRONOMY
7.Invention and Discovery, Rhetorically Speaking
APPENDIX A. The Will of James Smithson
APPENDIX B. An Act to Establish the Smithsonian Institution as it Passed into Law on August 10, 1846
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