Article ID: CBB383964413

Humphry Davy: Figura Literária e Filósofo Químico (2022)

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Durante o fim dos anos 1820 e no começo dos 1830, um movimento nacional britânico pregava a leitura de temas científicos como panaceia para turbulências políticas e sociais, e reformas educacionais tentavam conter o que ficou conhecido como a controvérsia do Declínio da Ciência. Neste contexto, o discurso sobre a ciência na Grã-Bretanha se tornou um assunto da elite aristocrática, e uma série de livros notáveis refletiram a natureza de seu poder e as transformações sociais que produzia. Este livro, do filósofo natural Humphry Davy, é a semiautobiografia Consolations in Travel, publicada postumamente em 1830 como uma coleção de trabalhos de aposentadoria e exílio voluntário em paisagens pitorescas, com perorações sobre temas metafísicos e contemplativos. Sujeito a uma carreira meteórica no mandato de uma sociedade de sábios fomentada pelo mecenato técnico-industrial, ele participou da destinação de uma nova forma deliberada de fazer ciência com visibilidade política, especialmente com vistas a, na Royal Institution, fazer performances públicas de experimentos químicos e tecnológicos. Para a esfera pública, a contribuição singular de Davy esclareceu a vocação científica diante de um processo de progresso visível da tecnociência. Entretanto, no âmbito privado, sua relação com os radicais cientistas e a geração poética e romântica britânica matizou a sua persona formada por um livro autobiográfico. Sendo assim, investiga-se neste trabalho como que a figura transicional de um novo profissional da ciência se combina com um filósofo e pensador sobre o destino nacional da política da ciência, assim como da contemplação das descobertas científicas e seu potencial legado permanente para o homem, com as consequências drásticas evidenciadas pelo uso indiscriminado destes produtos científicos, em explorações epistemológicas e de ampliação da consciência, e de resolução de enigmas científicos. [English translation by DeepL.com: During the late 1820s and early 1830s, a British national movement preached the reading of scientific subjects as a panacea for political and social turmoil, and educational reforms attempted to contain what became known as the Decline of Science controversy. In this context, the discourse on science in Britain became a matter for the aristocratic elite, and a series of notable books reflected the nature of their power and the social transformations it produced. This book, by the natural philosopher Humphry Davy, is the semi-autobiography Consolations in Travel, published posthumously in 1830 as a collection of works on retirement and voluntary exile in picturesque landscapes, with perorations on metaphysical and contemplative themes. Subject to a meteoric career in the mandate of a society of wise men fostered by technical-industrial patronage, he participated in the designation of a new deliberate form of doing science with political visibility, especially with a view to, at the Royal Institution, making public performances of chemical and technological experiments. For the public sphere, Davy's unique contribution clarified the scientific vocation in the face of a process of visible progress in technoscience. However, in the private sphere, his relationship with radical scientists and the British poetic and romantic generation nuanced his persona formed by an autobiographical book. Therefore, this paper investigates how the transitional figure of a new science professional combines with a philosopher and thinker on the national destiny of science policy, as well as the contemplation of scientific discoveries and their potential permanent legacy for mankind, with the drastic consequences evidenced by the indiscriminate use of these scientific products, in epistemological and consciousness-raising explorations, and the resolution of scientific enigmas.]

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Authors & Contributors
Hale, Piers J.
Ruston, Sharon
Alexander, Sarah C.
Brooke-Smith, James
Brown, William L.
Debus, Allen A.
Journals
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Journal of the History of Biology
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Chemical Heritage
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of Literature and Science
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Berghahn Books
Bucknell University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Pantheon Books
University of California, Santa Barbara
Concepts
Science and literature
Science and politics
Philosophy of science
Chemistry
Evolution
Science education and teaching
People
Davy, Humphry
Darwin, Charles Robert
Banks, Joseph
Beddoes, Thomas
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Conrad, Joseph
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
Great Britain
China
France
Italy
London (England)
Institutions
Geological Society of London
Royal Society of London
École Centrale de Paris
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