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Author Meneghello, Laura, author

Title Jacob Moleschott - A Transnational Biography : Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe / Laura Meneghello
Published Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Histoire ; 117
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Formalia and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Jacob Moleschott as Transnational Actor in European Cultural History -- Jacob Moleschott and the Beginning of his European Career -- Moleschott's Popularization of Physiology and Dietetics in Germany -- Zürich: Meeting Point of European Liberal Elites -- Experimental Physiology in Turin and Popularization in the Kingdom of Italy, 1861-1878 -- Moleschott in Rome (1878-1893): Scholar and Senator between Internal and Foreign Politics -- Cultural Politics: The Civilizing Mission of Science -- Moleschott on Criminal Anthropology and Penal Law -- Moleschott and Translation -- Celebrating Moleschott, Remembering Moleschott -- Conclusion: Jacob Moleschott, a Transnational Actor between Science and Politics -- Bibliography -- Backmatter
Summary This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in German, Italian, Dutch, French, and Latin, it not only sheds new light on the history of materialism in the natural sciences, but also shows the deep entanglement of science, politics, and popularization in 19th-century Europe. Applying new methods from cultural history and the history of science, Laura Meneghello focuses on processes of knowledge circulation, transnational mobility, and the role of translation in 19th-century science
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Nov 2017)
Subject Moleschott, Jacob, 1822-1893 -- Biography
SUBJECT Moleschott, Jacob, 1822-1893 fast
Subject Science -- Historiography.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
Politics and government
Science
Science -- Historiography
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705
Europe -- Science -- History
Europe -- Politics and government -- History
Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783839439708
3839439701