R.W. Home / S.G Kohlstedt (eds.)

International Science and National Scientific Identity

Australia Between Britain and America
Herausgegeben:Home, R. W.; Kohlstedt, S.G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Does Distance Tyrannize Science?.- Tyrannies of Distance in British Science.- Dr George Bennett and Sir Richard Owen: A Case Study of the Colonization of Early Australian Science.- A Far Frontier: British Geological Research in Australia during the Nineteenth Century.- A Collaborative Dimension of the European Empires: Australian and French Acclimatization Societies and Intercolonial Scientific Co-operation.- International Exchange in the Natural History Enterprise: Museums in Australia and the United States.- A World-wide Scientific Network and Patronage System: Australian and Other 'Colonial' Fellows of the Royal Society of London.- Ionospheric and Radio Physics in Australian Science since the Early Days.- Theories of the Earth as Seen from Below.- Geographic Isolation and the Origin of Species: The Migrations of Michael White.- Antipodal Fire: Bushfire Research in Australia and America.- Notes on Contributors.

Produktdetails

• Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 9
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands / Springer, Berlin
• 1991.
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780792309383
• ISBN-10: 0792309383
• Artikelnr.: 24454741