J Vernon Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1206339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Vernon Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Vernon |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thomas Henry Huxley’s address at the opening of the Johns Hopkins University in September 1876
On Christmas Eve, 1873, the 79-year-old Johns Hopkins died, and the birth process of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital began. From a devout Quaker family, Mr. Hopkins had become one of Baltimore’s wealthiest citizens through his success first in the wholesale grocery business, and then in banking and finance, though he had little formal education. A bachelor, Johns Hopkins had created in 1867 a Board of 12 distinguished …
Golden inches
Thomas Henry Huxley’s lecture tour of the United States, 1876
In the last half of the 19th century the English biologist-educator—rhetorician, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825—95), was a leading expositor and advocate of science, and of Darwinism in particular. At scientific meetings and conventions, in classroom lectures, public presentations, commemorative addresses, after-dinner speeches, books and essays, articles, book reviews and letters to newspapers, he clarified and defended the world of science, often du…
Return to the Wilberforce–Huxley Debate
One hundred and twenty-eight years ago in the historic city of Oxford a relatively brief impromptu verbal exchange at a scientific convention occurred. It is still vividly remembered in and out of academia. This so-called ‘debate’ between the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, and the young scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley, a simple and concrete episode, has continued to symbolize dramatically the complex and abstract phenomenon of the conflict …
Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology. Melvin Kranzberg
Bookshelf
AN OUTSPOKEN NIGERIAN Essays in Nigerian Foreign Policy. By Olajide Aluko. Publishers: George Allen and Unwin £12.50 hardback, £4.95 in paperback. UNDERSTANDING INDIA Envoy to Nehru. Escott Reid. Oxford University Press. Printed in India. 301 pp. 7 plates. Rs. 100. PATON'S SOUTH AFRICAN PICTURE Towards the Mountain: An Autobiography. By Alan Paton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980; pp. 320. $16.95
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century Get access CHARLES E. ROSENBERG, ed. Healing and History: Essays for George Rosen. New York, Science History Publications, 1979. viii, 263 pp. $22.75, $19.00 prepaid. JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT Assistant Professor History of Medicine Department, University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of t…
British voices on the eve of the American revolution
Thomas Henry Huxley’s ‘baptism into oratory’
When we study the lives of successful speakers in history, we tend to focus on their adult years in which their rhetorical accomplishments were at their height and their influence was the most pervasive. This is not unreasonable, for, after all, contemporaries do not write about young unknowns, and posterity is interested in the accomplishments and the mature, crystallized, fleshed out ideas of those who went before. We tend to skim lightly over …
The Staff of the Jacobean Privy Council
The X Club
In 1864 nine eminent scientists, who had long been intimate friends, formed a dining club in order to prevent their drifting apart due to their various duties, and in order to further the cause of science. The club, which acquired the title of “X Club”, held monthly meetings from October to June, and was extremely active for two decades, but then gradually lessened in vitality. It served as a highly significant fraternity of scientists, and the r…
The X Club
In 1864 nine eminent scientists, who had long been intimate friends, formed a dining club in order to prevent their drifting apart due to their various duties, and in order to further the cause of science. The club, which acquired the title of “X Club”, held monthly meetings from October to June, and was extremely active for two decades, but then gradually lessened in vitality. It served as a highly significant fraternity of scientists, and the r…
British voices on the eve of the American revolution
Return to the Wilberforce–Huxley Debate
One hundred and twenty-eight years ago in the historic city of Oxford a relatively brief impromptu verbal exchange at a scientific convention occurred. It is still vividly remembered in and out of academia. This so-called ‘debate’ between the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, and the young scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley, a simple and concrete episode, has continued to symbolize dramatically the complex and abstract phenomenon of the conflict …
The X Club
In 1864 nine eminent scientists, who had long been intimate friends, formed a dining club in order to prevent their drifting apart due to their various duties, and in order to further the cause of science. The club, which acquired the title of “X Club”, held monthly meetings from October to June, and was extremely active for two decades, but then gradually lessened in vitality. It served as a highly significant fraternity of scientists, and the r…
Thomas Henry Huxley’s ‘baptism into oratory’
When we study the lives of successful speakers in history, we tend to focus on their adult years in which their rhetorical accomplishments were at their height and their influence was the most pervasive. This is not unreasonable, for, after all, contemporaries do not write about young unknowns, and posterity is interested in the accomplishments and the mature, crystallized, fleshed out ideas of those who went before. We tend to skim lightly over …
The Staff of the Jacobean Privy Council
British voices on the eve of the American revolution
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century Get access CHARLES E. ROSENBERG, ed. Healing and History: Essays for George Rosen. New York, Science History Publications, 1979. viii, 263 pp. $22.75, $19.00 prepaid. JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT Assistant Professor History of Medicine Department, University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of t…
Bookshelf
AN OUTSPOKEN NIGERIAN Essays in Nigerian Foreign Policy. By Olajide Aluko. Publishers: George Allen and Unwin £12.50 hardback, £4.95 in paperback. UNDERSTANDING INDIA Envoy to Nehru. Escott Reid. Oxford University Press. Printed in India. 301 pp. 7 plates. Rs. 100. PATON'S SOUTH AFRICAN PICTURE Towards the Mountain: An Autobiography. By Alan Paton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980; pp. 320. $16.95
Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology. Melvin Kranzberg
Thomas Henry Huxley’s lecture tour of the United States, 1876
In the last half of the 19th century the English biologist-educator—rhetorician, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825—95), was a leading expositor and advocate of science, and of Darwinism in particular. At scientific meetings and conventions, in classroom lectures, public presentations, commemorative addresses, after-dinner speeches, books and essays, articles, book reviews and letters to newspapers, he clarified and defended the world of science, often du…
Return to the Wilberforce–Huxley Debate
One hundred and twenty-eight years ago in the historic city of Oxford a relatively brief impromptu verbal exchange at a scientific convention occurred. It is still vividly remembered in and out of academia. This so-called ‘debate’ between the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, and the young scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley, a simple and concrete episode, has continued to symbolize dramatically the complex and abstract phenomenon of the conflict …
Golden inches
Thomas Henry Huxley’s address at the opening of the Johns Hopkins University in September 1876
On Christmas Eve, 1873, the 79-year-old Johns Hopkins died, and the birth process of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital began. From a devout Quaker family, Mr. Hopkins had become one of Baltimore’s wealthiest citizens through his success first in the wholesale grocery business, and then in banking and finance, though he had little formal education. A bachelor, Johns Hopkins had created in 1867 a Board of 12 distinguished …
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