Editing Humphry Davy's letters "Work in progress in Romanticism"
Editing Humphry Davy's letters "Work in progress in Romanticism"
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编辑汉弗莱·戴维的信件“浪漫主义的进展”
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10.1111/lic3.12540
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2019
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Fulford T
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编辑团队由蒂姆·富尔福德（德蒙特福特大学）、莎伦·拉斯顿（兰开斯特大学，共同编辑）、扬·戈林斯基（新罕布什尔大学）、弗兰克·詹姆斯（英国皇家学会）、大卫·奈特(达勒姆大学；咨询编辑)目前正在准备《汉弗莱·戴维爵士的书信集》，这是一个四卷本的版本，收录了大约1200封戴维（1778-1829）和他身边的人的信件，将于2020年由牛津大学出版社以印刷版和电子版的形式出版。戴维是19世纪早期英国、欧洲和美国科学和文学文化中最重要、最著名的人物之一。戴维的科学成就是多种多样的，包括对一氧化二氮（笑气）的生理效应进行开创性的研究；分离钾、钙和其他几种金属；发明矿工安全灯（2015年庆祝其二百周年）；开发皇家海军舰艇铜片的电化学保护；保存赫库兰尼姆纸莎草；撰写有影响力的农业化学文本；并力求提高光学玻璃的质量。但戴维的努力并不仅仅局限于科学：他还是一位诗人，与拜伦勋爵、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治、罗伯特·索塞和威廉·华兹华斯同属一个文坛。自从戴维去世后，他几乎没有离开过公众的视线。他仍然是传记（最近的是富勒，2000年；福尔摩斯，2008年；奈特，1996年；拉蒙特-布朗，2004年）和当代科学家公开讲座（托马斯，2012年）的经常主题；他在文学评论家和科学史家的学术研究中也占有重要地位（例如，Golinski, 1992; Golinski, 1999; Golinski, 2011; Golinski, 2016; Hindle, 2012; Jenkins, 1998; Underwood, 2003）。与此同时，英国皇家学会继续授予戴维奖章，以表彰化学领域“非常重要”的发现。尽管戴维意义重大，声名显赫，但他的信件很少按照现代标准出版；甚至以引用摘录或删节和无注释的形式出版的维多利亚卷也不到250本（见戴维，1836；戴维，1858；巴黎，1831）。因此，《书信选集》将使戴维发表的信件数量增加约五倍。该版本将提供完整的、充分注释的文本，使戴维的科学术语对当代读者更容易理解，并扩大我们对他所处的科学和文学网络的了解。它将包括以前未发表的写给著名通讯员的信件，这些通讯员包括安德烈-玛丽·安普罗特、约瑟夫·班克斯爵士、托马斯·贝多斯、威廉·巴克兰、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治、乔治·居维叶、约翰·道尔顿、戴维斯·吉迪/吉尔伯特、威廉·戈德温、约翰·赫歇尔爵士、霍兰勋爵、亚历山大·冯·洪堡、利物浦勋爵、吉迪恩·曼特尔、亚历山大·马塞特、约翰·默里、汉斯·克里斯蒂安·赖斯特、
An editorial team of Tim Fulford (De Montfort University) and Sharon Ruston (Lancaster University; coeditors), and Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire), Frank James (the Royal Institution of Great Britain), and David Knight1 (Durham University; advisory editors) are currently preparing The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, a fourvolume edition of the approximately 1,200 surviving letters of Davy (1778–1829) and his immediate circle, for publication with Oxford University Press, in both print and electronic forms, in 2020. Davy was one of the most significant and famous figures in the scientific and literary culture of early 19thcentury Britain, Europe, and America. Davy's scientific accomplishments were varied and numerous, including conducting pioneering research into the physiological effects of nitrous oxide (laughing gas); isolating potassium, calcium, and several other metals; inventing a miners' safety lamp (the bicentenary of which was celebrated in 2015); developing the electrochemical protection of the copper sheeting of Royal Navy vessels; conserving the Herculaneum papyri; writing an influential text on agricultural chemistry; and seeking to improve the quality of optical glass. But Davy's endeavours were not merely limited to science: he was also a poet and moved in the same literary circles as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth. Since his death, Davy has rarely been out of the public mind. He is still the frequent subject of biographies (by, most recently, Fullmer, 2000; Holmes, 2008; Knight, 1996; Lamont-Brown, 2004), and of public lectures by contemporary scientists (by, eg, Thomas, 2012); he also features strongly in academic studies by both literary critics and historians of science (see, eg, Golinski, 1992; Golinski, 1999; Golinski, 2011; Golinski, 2016; Hindle, 2012; Jenkins, 1998; Underwood, 2003). The Royal Society, meanwhile, continues to award the Davy Medal for “outstandingly important” discoveries in chemistry. In spite of Davy's significance and fame, very few of his letters have appeared in print edited to modern standards; fewer than 250 have been published even in the form of quoted extracts or, expurgated and unannotated, in Victorian volumes (see Davy, 1836; Davy, 1858; Paris, 1831). 2 The Collected Letters will therefore increase the number of published letters written by Davy approximately fivefold. The edition will provide complete, fully annotated texts, making Davy's scientific terminology more intelligible to contemporary readers and expanding our knowledge of the scientific and literary networks of which he was part. It will feature previously unpublished letters to such notable correspondents as André-Marie Ampère, Sir Joseph Banks, Thomas Beddoes, William Buckland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Georges Cuvier, John Dalton, Davies Giddy/Gilbert, William Godwin, Sir John Herschel, Lord Holland, Alexander von Humboldt, Lord Liverpool, Gideon Mantell, Alexander Marcet, John Murray, Hans Christian rsted,