A Sincere and Teachable Heart - Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859

Richard Bellon's A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859 analyzes how principles of conduct and duty grounded in self-discipline pervasively influenced British intellectual life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

About the author

Richard Bellon, Ph.D. (2000), teaches science policy and history at Michigan State University. His work on the reception of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species won the History of Science Society's 2013 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Bellon
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2014
• EAN: 9789004263369
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26336-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Scientific and Learned Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)