Australian Science in the Making

Name: Australian Science in the Making
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ISBN: 9780521396400

ISBN-10: 0521396409

ISBN-13: 9780521396400

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Authors: Roderick Weir Home

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The Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science, as a contribution to the nation's bicentenary. Authors with wide-ranging fields of interest present a group of general surveys and case studies on the development of scientific understanding and research. Topics range from traditional Aboriginal conceptions of the workings of nature to the directions and priorities of the present day. Among issues the book addresses are the place of science in a colonial society; the relationship between science in Australia and elsewhere, especially Britain; the impact of war on the Australian scientific institutions. Published in association with the Australian…

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List price: $47.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/28/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.892



Introduction




Early Days



Aboriginal conceptions of the workings of nature




Philosophical travellers at the ends of the earth: Baudin, Peron and the Tasmanians




Cultural transmission: science and society to 1850




The long arm of London: Sir Roderick Murchison and imperial science in Australia




Support for the scientific enterprise, 1850-1900




Baron von Mueller: protege turned patron




Gorilla warfare in Melbourne: Halford, Huxley and 'Man's place in nature'




'Sweetness and light': industrial research in the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, 1855-1900<c>G. Bindon</c><f>Bindon, G.</f><c>D. P. Miller</c><f>Miller, D. P.</f><l>l</l><l>Part III</l>




Cancer, physics and society: interactions between the wars




Science on service, 1939-1945




Plant introduction in Australia




Research in the medical sciences: the road to national independence




Early years of Australian radio astronomy




Australian astronomy since the Second World War




The shaping of contemporary scientific institutions



Index