{"id":56566,"date":"2022-09-18T03:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56566"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:50:15","slug":"de-camp-as-a-popular-science-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/de-camp-as-a-popular-science-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"de Camp as a popular science historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Kunde <a href=\"https:\/\/spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com\/2022\/09\/13\/book-review-the-heroic-age-of-american-invention\/\">has a useful look at the science writing<\/a> of the Lovecraft biographer L. Sprague de Camp, as part of a review of his <em>The Heroic Age of American Invention<\/em>. Others include&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Story of Science in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Monkey Trial<\/em> (the trial that Lovecraft sometimes refers to).<\/p>\n<p><em>Darwin and His Great Discovery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Great Cities of the Ancient World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Evolution of Naval Weapons<\/em> (for the U.S. government, as a course textbook).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ape-Man Within<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He was working alongside Sagan and Asimov, in the popular science \/ debunking superstition field.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in <em>Astounding<\/em> (July 1938), his non-fiction <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Astounding_v21n05_1938-07\/page\/n61\/mode\/2up\">&#8220;Language for Time Travelers&#8221;<\/a> surveyed the difficulties a time traveller would encounter with pronunciation, semantics and vowel shifts. Put together with his &#8220;non-fiction radio scripts for Voice of America&#8221;, if extant, could there be a public domain audiobook there for someone to tackle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Kunde has a useful look at the science writing of the Lovecraft biographer L. Sprague de Camp, as part &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/de-camp-as-a-popular-science-historian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-de-camp","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56588,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56566\/revisions\/56588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}