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

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Colección:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
Exhibitions > Australia > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions > History > 19th century.
Science > Australia > History > 19th century.
Science > Exhibitions.
Sciences > Australie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences > Expositions.
SCIENCE > General.
Exhibitions.
Science.
Australia.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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