Description

• Title:
  Living light: naturalistic discourse on the phosphorescence of the sea in the 19th century
• Creator:
  Azoulai, Juliette
• Description:
  The phosphorescence of the sea has aroused much questioning since antiquity and numerous studies address the topic in the 19th century, when this phenomenon (today referred to as bioluminescence) is given a biological explanation. Raising admiration, wonder, but also scientific controversy, the bright sea is a common motif, frequently reappearing in scientific travel writing, research studies in marine biology, popular science and literary texts. This paper examines the imaginary component which underlies these different texts and seems attached to the depiction of living light.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Juliette Azoulai
• Date:
  2018.05.16
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  French
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 44 No. 4 (2017): Sciences du vivant : imaginaire et discours scientifique. Fin XVIIIe siècle – XIXe siècle; 45-57;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 44 Nr 4 (2017): Sciences du vivant : imaginaire et discours scientifique. Fin XVIIIe siècle – XIXe siècle; 45-57;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/12686/12480
• Subject:
  sea;
  phosphorescence;
  bioluminescence;
  wonder;
  accounts of travels;
  biology;
  marine animals
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/12686
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text