Doctoral Dissertation Research: Humphry Davy and the Rise of Modern Chemistry

“浪漫主义”似乎与科学完全对立。我们将浪漫主义与诗歌和情感联系在一起，并将其与科学及其相关的理性和客观性相对立。 科学史家历来接受这一观点，并认为浪漫主义是优秀科学的障碍，是某些科学家的不幸弱点，使他们的判断模糊不清，使他们的方法混乱。 然而，历史研究表明，科学中的浪漫主义态度实际上并没有阻碍科学的进步。 事实上，在现代化学的创造中，最重要的科学家之一汉弗莱·戴维是一个浪漫主义者。 浪漫主义如何塑造科学及其机构？ 浪漫主义是如何与科学格格不入的？ 这些问题的答案可能有助于在当代科学的理性主义需求与其浪漫主义批评家的观点之间建立和解。 朱莉安娜·塔特尔的论文《汉弗莱·戴维：科学与浪漫主义的案例研究》（Humphry Davy：A Case Study of Science and Romanticism）探讨了几位戴维学者的惊人观察所产生的问题，即浪漫主义在戴维职业生涯的某些阶段占主导地位，但在其他阶段几乎不存在。 塔特尔女士的论文围绕戴维的作品，包括未发表的期刊，信件，实验室笔记，科学论文，讲义和诗歌草稿密切阅读中心。这种密切的阅读将1）跟踪浪漫主义在戴维的化学，认识论和天才的概念的流行，2）分析戴维如何结合浪漫主义与主流化学和方法，和3）辨别和分析的情况下，戴维调和或排除他的浪漫主义，有利于更充分的培根，机械论，或非形而上学的科学。 塔特尔女士的论文将有助于最近的奖学金，发现浪漫主义是现代科学发展的组成部分。此外，戴维作为一个案例研究暗示更大的趋势，论文将探讨浪漫主义和科学之间的冲突或不兼容性，以了解科学是如何被重塑，以排除浪漫主义的目标。

"Romanticism" seems absolutely antithetical to science. We associate romanticism with poetry and emotion and set it opposite science and its associated qualities of rationality and objectivity. Historians of science have traditionally accepted this view and have seen romanticism as an obstacle to good science and an unfortunate weakness of certain scientists which clouded their judgment and confounded their method. Yet historical research has shown that romantic attitudes in science have not in fact obstructed the advance of science. Indeed, one of the most important of scientists in the creation of modern chemistry, Humphry Davy, was a romantic. How did romanticism shape science and its institutions? How did romanticism become incompatible with science? The answer to these questions could help to create a rapprochement between the rationalist needs of contemporary science and the views of its romantic critics. Julianne Tuttle's dissertation "Humphry Davy: A Case Study of Science and Romanticism" pursues questions arising from the striking observation of several Davy scholars that Romanticism dominated Davy's thought at some phases in his career but was almost absent in others. Ms. Tuttle's dissertation centers around a close reading of Davy's works including unpublished journals, letters, lab notes, drafts of scientific papers, lecture notes, and poetry. This close reading will 1) track the prevalence of Romanticism in Davy's chemistry, epistemology, and notions of genius, 2) analyze how Davy integrated Romanticism with mainstream chemistry and method, and 3) discern and analyze instances in which Davy tempered or excluded his Romanticism in favor of a more fully Baconian, mechanistic, or nonmetaphysical science. Ms. Tuttle's dissertation will contribute to the recent scholarship which has found Romanticism to be integral to the development of modern science. Furthermore, taking Davy as a case study suggestive of larger trends, the dissertation will explore conflicts or incomp atibility between Romanticism and science with the goal of understanding how science was recast to exclude Romanticism.