Janet Browne
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3768901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janet Browne |
| NOMBRES | Janet |
| APELLIDO | Browne |
| FIRMA | BROWNE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Janet Browne is Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of a biography of Charles Darwin in two volumes—Voyaging (New York, 1995); The Power of Place (New York, 2002). |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
The Quotable Darwin
The Quotable Darwin
Quotable Darwin
An appreciation of Christiane Groeben
Asa Gray and Charles Darwin
Recent work on the rise of science in the nineteenth century has encouraged historians to look again at the role of correspondence. Naturalists relied extensively on this form of contact and correspondence was a major element in generating a community of experts who agreed on what comprised valid knowledge. As a leading figure in the development of North American botany, Asa Gray found that letters with botanists and collectors all over the world…
A field comes of age
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Making Darwin
Biographies of scientists are generating fresh interest as current movements in the historiography of science increasingly focus on the social aspects of science and on the criteria that most accurately describe a scientific life. Biography is the form through which the work of a scientist can be located in its fullest historical context. It can also reveal much about the construction of reputation and about the reception of ideas. The biographic…
Looking at Darwin
With increased attention on the visual in the history of science, there is renewed interest in the role of portraiture and other forms of personal imagery in constructing scientific reputation and the circulation of scientific ideas. This essay indicates some directions in which researchers could push forward by studying the dissemination of pictures and portraits of Charles Darwin. Selected portraits are discussed, with particular attention paid…
Presidential address Commemorating Darwin
This text draws attention to former ideologies of the scientific hero in order to explore the leading features of Charles Darwin's fame, both during his lifetime and beyond. Emphasis is laid on the material record of celebrity, including popular mementoes, statues and visual images. Darwin's funeral in Westminster Abbey and the main commemorations and centenary celebrations, as well as the opening of Down House as a museum in 1929, are discussed …
Charles Darwin as a Celebrity
ArgumentSeveral recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing the public character deliberately manufactured by Darwin and his friends with images constructed by the public as represented here by caricatures in humorous magazines of the era. It is argued that Darwin's outward persona…
Natural History collecting and the Biogeographical tradition
Great expeditions and scientific journeys carried out the collecting of Natural History material and data. Naturalists changed collected material into museum pieces, diaries, books, maps, letters and so on. As far as techniques, practices, explored areas and personnel are concerned, it becomes evident the fact that material collecting for Medicine has followed the same collecting traditions as Natural History
Officers and council members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97
As described elsewhere in this issue of BJHS , preliminary steps towards founding a society for the history of science in Britain were taken in 1946. A meeting was held at the Science Museum, London, on 22 November 1946, chaired by Herbert Dingle, at which Gavin de Beer formally proposed the foundation of a history of science society, seconded by Michael Roberts. A provisional committee was appointed to draw up rules and a constitution
Keywords in Evolutionary Biology . Evelyn Fox Keller , Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Essay reviews
Richard Owen, The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy. May and June 1837. Edited with an Introduction by Phillip Reid Sloan. Natural History Museum Publications, 1992. Pp. xii + 340, £37.50 hardback, £15.95 paper. ISBN 0-565-011065, 0-565-011448 Jacob W. Gruber and John C. Thackray, Richard Owen Commemoration: Three Studies. Historical Studies in the Life and Earth Sciences No. 1. Natural History Museum Publications, 1992. Pp. x + 181, £29.…
Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy
Squibs and Snobs
The Southern Ark
Botany for Gentlemen
Chapter 12. Darwin and the Expression of the Emotions
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JANET BROWNE JANET BROWNE University CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Pages 519-b–521, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.519-b Published: 01 April 1988
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788)
Cambridge and Clare. Harry Godwin
The Secular Ark
Essay Review
Botany for Gentlemen
Making Darwin
Biographies of scientists are generating fresh interest as current movements in the historiography of science increasingly focus on the social aspects of science and on the criteria that most accurately describe a scientific life. Biography is the form through which the work of a scientist can be located in its fullest historical context. It can also reveal much about the construction of reputation and about the reception of ideas. The biographic…
Looking at Darwin
With increased attention on the visual in the history of science, there is renewed interest in the role of portraiture and other forms of personal imagery in constructing scientific reputation and the circulation of scientific ideas. This essay indicates some directions in which researchers could push forward by studying the dissemination of pictures and portraits of Charles Darwin. Selected portraits are discussed, with particular attention paid…
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
The Secular Ark
Charles Darwin as a Celebrity
ArgumentSeveral recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing the public character deliberately manufactured by Darwin and his friends with images constructed by the public as represented here by caricatures in humorous magazines of the era. It is argued that Darwin's outward persona…
Presidential address Commemorating Darwin
This text draws attention to former ideologies of the scientific hero in order to explore the leading features of Charles Darwin's fame, both during his lifetime and beyond. Emphasis is laid on the material record of celebrity, including popular mementoes, statues and visual images. Darwin's funeral in Westminster Abbey and the main commemorations and centenary celebrations, as well as the opening of Down House as a museum in 1929, are discussed …
Officers and council members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97
As described elsewhere in this issue of BJHS , preliminary steps towards founding a society for the history of science in Britain were taken in 1946. A meeting was held at the Science Museum, London, on 22 November 1946, chaired by Herbert Dingle, at which Gavin de Beer formally proposed the foundation of a history of science society, seconded by Michael Roberts. A provisional committee was appointed to draw up rules and a constitution
Natural History collecting and the Biogeographical tradition
Great expeditions and scientific journeys carried out the collecting of Natural History material and data. Naturalists changed collected material into museum pieces, diaries, books, maps, letters and so on. As far as techniques, practices, explored areas and personnel are concerned, it becomes evident the fact that material collecting for Medicine has followed the same collecting traditions as Natural History
Squibs and Snobs
A Delicate Arrangement
The Secular Ark
Essay Review
Bibliography of the Rhinoceros
Cambridge and Clare. Harry Godwin
Chapter 12. Darwin and the Expression of the Emotions
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JANET BROWNE JANET BROWNE University CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Pages 519-b–521, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.519-b Published: 01 April 1988
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788)
The Southern Ark
Botany for Gentlemen
Squibs and Snobs
Keywords in Evolutionary Biology . Evelyn Fox Keller , Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Essay reviews
Richard Owen, The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy. May and June 1837. Edited with an Introduction by Phillip Reid Sloan. Natural History Museum Publications, 1992. Pp. xii + 340, £37.50 hardback, £15.95 paper. ISBN 0-565-011065, 0-565-011448 Jacob W. Gruber and John C. Thackray, Richard Owen Commemoration: Three Studies. Historical Studies in the Life and Earth Sciences No. 1. Natural History Museum Publications, 1992. Pp. x + 181, £29.…
Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy
Officers and council members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97
As described elsewhere in this issue of BJHS , preliminary steps towards founding a society for the history of science in Britain were taken in 1946. A meeting was held at the Science Museum, London, on 22 November 1946, chaired by Herbert Dingle, at which Gavin de Beer formally proposed the foundation of a history of science society, seconded by Michael Roberts. A provisional committee was appointed to draw up rules and a constitution
Natural History collecting and the Biogeographical tradition
Great expeditions and scientific journeys carried out the collecting of Natural History material and data. Naturalists changed collected material into museum pieces, diaries, books, maps, letters and so on. As far as techniques, practices, explored areas and personnel are concerned, it becomes evident the fact that material collecting for Medicine has followed the same collecting traditions as Natural History
Charles Darwin as a Celebrity
ArgumentSeveral recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing the public character deliberately manufactured by Darwin and his friends with images constructed by the public as represented here by caricatures in humorous magazines of the era. It is argued that Darwin's outward persona…
Presidential address Commemorating Darwin
This text draws attention to former ideologies of the scientific hero in order to explore the leading features of Charles Darwin's fame, both during his lifetime and beyond. Emphasis is laid on the material record of celebrity, including popular mementoes, statues and visual images. Darwin's funeral in Westminster Abbey and the main commemorations and centenary celebrations, as well as the opening of Down House as a museum in 1929, are discussed …
Looking at Darwin
With increased attention on the visual in the history of science, there is renewed interest in the role of portraiture and other forms of personal imagery in constructing scientific reputation and the circulation of scientific ideas. This essay indicates some directions in which researchers could push forward by studying the dissemination of pictures and portraits of Charles Darwin. Selected portraits are discussed, with particular attention paid…
Asa Gray and Charles Darwin
Recent work on the rise of science in the nineteenth century has encouraged historians to look again at the role of correspondence. Naturalists relied extensively on this form of contact and correspondence was a major element in generating a community of experts who agreed on what comprised valid knowledge. As a leading figure in the development of North American botany, Asa Gray found that letters with botanists and collectors all over the world…
A field comes of age
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Making Darwin
Biographies of scientists are generating fresh interest as current movements in the historiography of science increasingly focus on the social aspects of science and on the criteria that most accurately describe a scientific life. Biography is the form through which the work of a scientist can be located in its fullest historical context. It can also reveal much about the construction of reputation and about the reception of ideas. The biographic…
An appreciation of Christiane Groeben
The Quotable Darwin
Quotable Darwin
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