A Preliminary Discourse On The Study Of Natural History Classic Reprint
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A Preliminary Discourse On The Study Of Natural History Classic Reprint
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Author : William Swainson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-30
A Preliminary Discourse On The Study Of Natural History Classic Reprint written by William Swainson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Excerpt from A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History (1.) To form a just estimate of the relative position of any science at a given period, it is necessary that the prominent events in its history be rightly understood. It seems, therefore, expedient to commence this discourse with a slight sketch of the rise and progress of zoological science; or, more properly, of the progressive discovery of the forms, structures, and habits belonging to the animal world; a world replete with such an infinity of beings, each possessing so many peculiarities of habit and economy, that, notwithstanding the united efforts of human research for thousands of years, there is not one of them whose history, as yet, can be pronounced complete. (2.) The vast and diversified field of enquiry over which zoology extends, and the many distinct portions into which it is now distributed, render it extremely difficult to embrace the whole in one general exposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Making Of Modern Science
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Author : David Knight
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2009-11-16
The Making Of Modern Science written by David Knight and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume brings together the people, events, and discoveries of 19th century science into a lively narrative. It places particular emphasis on the new forms in which scientists communicated with the public, in the context of increasing urbanization, globalization and industrialization.
Archibald Liversidge Frs
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Author : Roy M. MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2009
Archibald Liversidge Frs written by Roy M. MacLeod and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory he had about ten students and two rooms in the main building. In 1874 he became professor of geology and mineralogy and by 1879 he had persuaded the senate to open a faculty of science. He became its first dean in 1882. In 1880 he visited Europe as a trustee of the Australian Museum and his report helped to establish the Industrial, Technological and Sanitary Museum which formed the basis of the present Powerhouse Museum's collection. Liversidge also played a major role in the setting up of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science which held its first congress in 1888. For anyone interested in Archibald Liversidge, his contribution to crystallography, mineral chemistry, chemical geology, strategic minerals policy and a wider field of colonial science.
The Routledge Research Companion To Nineteenth Century British Literature And Science
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Author : John Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-18
The Routledge Research Companion To Nineteenth Century British Literature And Science written by John Holmes and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
David Hume
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Author : Mark G. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
David Hume written by Mark G. Spencer and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.
Catalogue Of The Educational Division Of The South Kensington Museum
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Author : South Kensington Museum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Catalogue Of The Educational Division Of The South Kensington Museum written by South Kensington Museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Education categories.
Catalogue Of The Educational Division Of The South Kensington Museum
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Author : Victoria and Albert museum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Catalogue Of The Educational Division Of The South Kensington Museum written by Victoria and Albert museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
Science In The Public Sphere
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Author : Richard Yeo
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-10-28
Science In The Public Sphere written by Richard Yeo and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-28 with History categories.
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as ’natural knowledge’ - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. This was the period before major state support for science allowed its professionalization; indeed, it was a time in which the word ’scientist’ (although coined in 1833 by William Whewell) was not yet widely used. In this context, the questions about the nature of science were part of a public debate that included the following topics: scientific method and intellectual authority, the moral demeanour of the man of science, the hierarchy of specialised scientific disciplines, and the relation with natural theology. These topics were discussed both within scientific circles - in correspondence and meeting of societies - as well as in the wider public sphere constituted by quarterly journals and encyclopaedias. A study of these debates allow us to see how British science of this period began to cast loose some of its earlier theological supports, but still relied on a moral framework to affirm its distinctive method, ethos and cultural value.
Catalogue Of The Educational Division Of The South Kensington Museum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Catalogue Of The Educational Division Of The South Kensington Museum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
The American Bookseller
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The American Bookseller written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with American literature categories.