Willard Gibbs
McNally Jackson Books (Verlag)
9781961341159 (ISBN)
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Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century of science by bridging classical mechanics and quantum physics. A kindly and shy bachelor who lectured at Yale in relative obscurity for more than thirty years, he single-handedly created the field of physical chemistry without ever completing a single experiment. Gibbs’s visionary work enabled future scientists to predict what states a substance can assume and under what conditions—the implications for industry, agriculture, and warfare were vast. Hailed by Einstein as “the greatest mind in American history,” Gibbs remained essentially unknown.
To acclaimed poet Muriel Rukeyser, Gibbs “lived closer than any inventor, any poet, any scientific worker in pure imagination to the life of the inventive and organizing spirit in America.” Rukeyser’s thoroughly researched and lyrical tribute to Gibbs is much more than a biography: it is an alchemical compound of philosophy, history, ethics, and literature writ large. It is the story of a country, a century, a global epoch of scientific creativity that would color every realm of human imagination and aspiration, from poetry to politics.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) was a poet, playwright, biographer, children’s book author, and political activist. She won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for her first collection, Theory of Flight (1935), and became central to both American modernism and Leftist political communities over her five-decade career, mentoring scores of younger poets including Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, and Adrienne Rich, among many others. Rukeyser was born in New York City and attended Vassar College. After her death in 1980, Rukeyser’s work suffered critical and popular neglect. However, Rukeyser’s body of work has emerged as particularly vital and important to poets and scholars in the first decades of the 21st century. Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning—sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She has written some very long books (Figuring and Traversal) and some very short books (The Snail with the Right Heart and The Coziest Place on the Moon), and her show The Universe in Verse—a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry—has also become a book the length of a day on Saturn.
Foreword by Maria Popova
1. Introduction: On Presumption
2. The “Amistad” Mutiny
3. New Haven Childhood
4. Science and the Imagination
5. The Education
6. Father and Son
7. The Civil War
8. The Years Abroad
9. Return to America
10. The First Papers
11. A Chair in Mathematical Physics
12. The Great Paper
13. “Mathematics Is a Language”
14. The Rosetta Stone of Science
15. The Shadow and the Factory
16. Three Masters: Melville, Whitman, Gibbs
17. The Imagination of America
18. The Double Democracy
19. Tendencies of History
20. The Long Discovery of Willard Gibbs
Acknowledgments
Five Definitions
Reading List
Sources of Quotations
Index
About the Author and Introducer
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.04.2025 |
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| Vorwort | Maria Popova |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781961341159 / 9781961341159 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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