A science of our own : exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science /

"When the Reverend Henry Carmichael opened the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in 1833, he introduced a bold directive: for Australia to advance on the scale of nations, it needed to develop a science of its own. Prominent scientists in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria answere...

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主要作者: Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2019]
丛编:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvr43hwv
书本目录:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One
  • "Nearly All Possible and Impossible Things Under the Sun"; Two
  • "Men Who Are an Ornament to Science"; Three
  • "From the Empire of Plants I Have Always Endeavoured"; Four
  • "Dwellers in the Desert Living in Tents"; Five
  • "The Physical, Social, and Moral Conditions of Man"; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index