The Passionate Empiricist -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Classical Voice for American Science -- 2. An American Cicero -- ADAMS THE PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC -- THE LECTURES ON RHETORIC: AN OUTLINE OF ADAMS'S THEORY -- COMPETING RHETORICAL TEACHINGS IN ADAMS'S TIME -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY RHETORICAL THEORY:AN AID FOR CONTEMPORARY READERS -- 3.Toward a Democratic Science:Institution-Building andthe Statesman Orator -- ADAMS'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT AS AN ORATORFOR DEMOCRATIC SCIENCE -- THE PRESIDENCY AS PULPIT FOR SCIENCE -- APPEALING TO THE AUDIENCE: EARLY AMERICANATTITUDES TOWARD SCIENCE -- 4. Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge:Setting the Stage for theSmithsonian Debate -- THE QUESTION OF JAMES SMITHSON'S INTENTIONS -- THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE ETHOS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY -- EARLY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AS MODELS IN DELIBERATIVE RHETORIC -- THE SMITHSONIAN AS LOCUS FOR COMMON KNOWLEDGE -- AN IMPERIOUS AND INDISPENSABLE OBLIGATION -- THE STATE OF THE CONTROVERSY -- 5. Adams's Arguments in the Smithsonian Debate: A Rhetorical Analysis -- AN INVENTIVE STAGE: LETTERS, LEARNED ADVICE,AND PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS -- ASHER ROBBINS AND THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLAN -- ADAMS'S REFUTATIONS AND HIS FIRST ARGUMENTS FOR AN OBSERVATORY -- TWO PARTICULAR AUDIENCES AND ADAMS'S ROLE AS IMPARTIAL JUDGE -- FINANCIAL DELAYS TO ACTION: "CATCH THE BEAR BEFORE YOU SELL HIS SKIN" -- RESISTANCE TO ARGUMENTATION -- ARGUMENTS FOR A NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMAND THE AGRICULTURAL INFLUENCE -- THE GRAND LIBRARY PLAN -- COMPROMISE -- 6. The Queen of Sciences and Her Democratic Champion: Adams's Promotion of Astronomy -- ADAMS'S CONGRESSIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR AN OBSERVATORY -- ADAMS'S PUBLIC SPEAKING TOURS ON ASTRONOMY -- 7.Invention and Discovery, Rhetorically Speaking -- APPENDIX A. The Will of James Smithson.

APPENDIX B. An Act to Establish the Smithsonian Institution as it Passed into Law on August 10, 1846 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.