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has produced a biography of Benjamin Peirce quite unlike his articles in this journal. In contrast to I. Bernard Cohen's scientific biography of Peirce [Cohen, 1980], Hogan takes a much more personal approach in his work. Hogan utilizes letters exchanged between Peirce and his scientific friends-most notably Alexander Dallas Bache-as well as correspondence between Peirce and family members like his wife Sara, to reconstruct a life dedicated to building a nascent community of professional scientists in the United States. Hogan calls his work a "documentary biography" (p. 10). He tells us that his decision to relate Peirce's life story through his own correspondence is at least partially due to Peirce's desire, as related in a letter to Bache, to be saved from "eulogistic biographers" (p. 9). Although there are places in the book in which lengthy quotes from this correspondence interfere with the flow of the story, the overall result is an interesting and very personal look at the changing face of American science throughout a large portion of the 19th century. Of the Human Heart begins in the middle of Peirce's career, with the relatively unknown Harvard astronomer/mathematician ann

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Author

Todd Timmons

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0315-0860)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Mathematics (Physical Sciences)