Michael S Reidy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1081122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Reidy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Reidy |
| SIGNATURE | REIDY M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7747-0778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Capturing Glaciers
Peak Pursuits
The Anthropocene—with its changing climate, rising sea levels, and deteriorating glaciers—has been accompanied by a rising interest in the wilds of the world. People are flocking to the outdoors. High places in particular are valuable commodities, now overrun by tourists in Sprinter vans. As Caroline Schaumann laments, “we are destroying the very thing we love” (290). Our desire to both enjoy the mountains and save them from overuse had its origi…
Mountaineering, Masculinity, and the Male Body in Mid-Victorian Britain
Golden-age mountaineers attempted to codify gender, like flora and fauna, by altitude. They zoned the high Alps masculine. As women also reached into the highest regions, male alpinists increasingly turned to their bodies, and the bodies of their guides, to give scientific validity to their all-male preserve. Edward Whymper traveled to the Andes in 1879, where he transformed Chimborazo into a laboratory and his own body and those of his guides in…
The Spaces In Between
Historians of science have richly documented the interconnections between science and empire in the nineteenth century. These studies primarily begin with Britain, Europe, or the United States at the center and have focused almost entirely on lands far off in the periphery--India or Australia, for instance. The spaces in between have received scant attention. Because use of the ocean in this period was infused with the doctrine of the freedom of …
Communicating Science
This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, oganization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. They also speculate on the future currency of the scientific article, as it enters the era of the World Wide Web. This b…
Argument and 17th-Century Science
This paper compares the argumentative practices of the English and French scientific communities from the origin of the scientific journal in 1665 up to 1700. To that end, we ask a uniform set of questions related to argumentative practice in a large sample of articles randomly drawn from the three pre-eminent scientific journals of this period: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Journal des Sçavans and Mémoires de l'Acadé…
The Spaces In Between
Historians of science have richly documented the interconnections between science and empire in the nineteenth century. These studies primarily begin with Britain, Europe, or the United States at the center and have focused almost entirely on lands far off in the periphery--India or Australia, for instance. The spaces in between have received scant attention. Because use of the ocean in this period was infused with the doctrine of the freedom of …
Mountaineering, Masculinity, and the Male Body in Mid-Victorian Britain
Golden-age mountaineers attempted to codify gender, like flora and fauna, by altitude. They zoned the high Alps masculine. As women also reached into the highest regions, male alpinists increasingly turned to their bodies, and the bodies of their guides, to give scientific validity to their all-male preserve. Edward Whymper traveled to the Andes in 1879, where he transformed Chimborazo into a laboratory and his own body and those of his guides in…
Argument and 17th-Century Science
This paper compares the argumentative practices of the English and French scientific communities from the origin of the scientific journal in 1665 up to 1700. To that end, we ask a uniform set of questions related to argumentative practice in a large sample of articles randomly drawn from the three pre-eminent scientific journals of this period: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Journal des Sçavans and Mémoires de l'Acadé…
Argument and 17th-Century Science
This paper compares the argumentative practices of the English and French scientific communities from the origin of the scientific journal in 1665 up to 1700. To that end, we ask a uniform set of questions related to argumentative practice in a large sample of articles randomly drawn from the three pre-eminent scientific journals of this period: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Journal des Sçavans and Mémoires de l'Acadé…
Communicating Science
This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, oganization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. They also speculate on the future currency of the scientific article, as it enters the era of the World Wide Web. This b…
The Spaces In Between
Historians of science have richly documented the interconnections between science and empire in the nineteenth century. These studies primarily begin with Britain, Europe, or the United States at the center and have focused almost entirely on lands far off in the periphery--India or Australia, for instance. The spaces in between have received scant attention. Because use of the ocean in this period was infused with the doctrine of the freedom of …
Mountaineering, Masculinity, and the Male Body in Mid-Victorian Britain
Golden-age mountaineers attempted to codify gender, like flora and fauna, by altitude. They zoned the high Alps masculine. As women also reached into the highest regions, male alpinists increasingly turned to their bodies, and the bodies of their guides, to give scientific validity to their all-male preserve. Edward Whymper traveled to the Andes in 1879, where he transformed Chimborazo into a laboratory and his own body and those of his guides in…
Peak Pursuits
The Anthropocene—with its changing climate, rising sea levels, and deteriorating glaciers—has been accompanied by a rising interest in the wilds of the world. People are flocking to the outdoors. High places in particular are valuable commodities, now overrun by tourists in Sprinter vans. As Caroline Schaumann laments, “we are destroying the very thing we love” (290). Our desire to both enjoy the mountains and save them from overuse had its origi…
Capturing Glaciers
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Argumentative (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works)