[ { "id": "authors:v0rm4-10924", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "v0rm4-10924", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200911-131219241", "type": "book", "title": "The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs", "author": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed Z.", "orcid": "0009-0002-9957-3783", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" }, { "family_name": "Greco Josefowicz", "given_name": "Diane", "clpid": "Greco-Josefowicz-D" } ], "abstract": "In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology\u2014that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta. \n\nJed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz bring to life a bygone age of intellectual adventure. Much more than a decoding exercise centered on a single artifact, the race to decipher the Rosetta Stone reflected broader disputes about language, historical evidence, biblical truth, and the value of classical learning. Buchwald and Josefowicz paint compelling portraits of Young and Champollion, two gifted intellects with altogether different motivations. Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing as a means to greater knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. Champollion, swept up in the political chaos of Restoration France and fiercely opposed to the scholars aligned with throne and altar, admired ancient Egypt and was prepared to upend conventional wisdom to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphs. \n\nTaking readers from the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France to the windswept monuments of the Valley of the Kings, The Riddle of the Rosetta reveals the untold story behind one of the nineteenth century's most thrilling discoveries.", "isbn": "9780691200903", "publisher": "Princeton University Press", "place_of_publication": "Princeton, NJ", "publication_date": "2020-09-15" }, { "id": "authors:6ntkq-6g548", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "6ntkq-6g548", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20171214-074230254", "type": "book", "title": "The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere", "book_title": "The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere", "author": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed", "orcid": "0009-0002-9957-3783", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" }, { "family_name": "Stewart", "given_name": "Larry", "clpid": "Stewart-L" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" }, { "family_name": "Stewart", "given_name": "Larry", "clpid": "Stewart-L" } ], "abstract": "The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere's many themes and interests, The Romance of Science assembles historians of science -- all influenced by Levere's work -- to explore such matters as the place and space of instruments in science, the role and meaning of science museums, poetry in nature, chemical warfare and warfare in nature, science in Canada and the Arctic, Romanticism, aesthetics and morals in natural philosophy, and the \"dismal science\" of economics. The Romance of Science explores the interactions between science's romantic, material, institutional and economic engagements with Nature.", "doi": "10.1007/978-3-319-58436-2", "isbn": "978-3-319-58435-5", "publisher": "Springer", "place_of_publication": "Cham, Switzerland", "publication_date": "2017" }, { "id": "authors:sv6at-3da74", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "sv6at-3da74", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200203-135426075", "type": "book", "title": "A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie", "author": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed Z.", "orcid": "0009-0002-9957-3783", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed Z.", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" } ], "abstract": "New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.", "doi": "10.1007/978-94-007-2627-7", "isbn": "978-94-007-2626-0", "publisher": "Springer", "place_of_publication": "Dordrecht", "publication_date": "2012" }, { "id": "authors:wvbqg-pqz81", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "wvbqg-pqz81", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200130-083214164", "type": "book", "title": "Wrong for the Right Reasons", "author": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed Z.", "orcid": "0009-0002-9957-3783", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" }, { "family_name": "Franklin", "given_name": "Allan", "clpid": "Franklin-A" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Buchwald", "given_name": "Jed Z.", "clpid": "Buchwald-J-Z" }, { "family_name": "Franklin", "given_name": "Allan", "clpid": "Franklin-A" } ], "abstract": "The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale.", "doi": "10.1007/1-4020-3048-7", "isbn": "978-1-4020-3047-5", "publisher": "Springer", "place_of_publication": "Dordrecht", "publication_date": "2005" } ]