Report from the Select Committee on Scientific Instruction
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Scientific Instruction
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 614
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Scientific Instruction
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Vincent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-07-30
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521457712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by 1914 England, together with handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every interstice of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.
Author: Belgium. Commission centrale de statistique. Bibliothèque
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 282
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 928
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Author: South Kensington Museum
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 252
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 798
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 790
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 930
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gowan Dawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-04-28
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 022610964X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists—led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndall—sought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them special insight into society, politics, and even ethics. In Victorian Scientific Naturalism, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman bring together new essays by leading historians of science and literary critics that recall these scientific naturalists, in light of recent scholarship that has tended to sideline them, and that reevaluate their place in the broader landscape of nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalism—as well as its subsequent incarnations in the early twentieth century—that together provide an innovative understanding of the movement centering on the issues of community, identity, and continuity.
Author: Roy MacLeod
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2009-12-14
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 1743321317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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. 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.