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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Autor principal: Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science.
Exhibitions.
SCIENCE > General.
Sciences > Expositions.
Sciences > Australie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Science > Exhibitions.
Science > Australia > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions > History > 19th century.
Exhibitions > Australia > History > 19th century.
Australia.
History.
Exhibition catalogs.
Electronic books.
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505 0 |a 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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