James Cash

Where There's a Will, There's a Way!

Or, Science in the Cottage; An Account of the Labours of Naturalists in Humble Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1873 book acclaims the contribution of self-taught working men to British natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9781108037907
• ISBN-10: 1108037909
• Artikelnr.: 34162428

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Early English botanists
2. Botany in Lancashire
3. John Dewhurst: political troubles
4. George Caley
5. Edward Hobson, of Manchester
6. The Banksian Society of Manchester: Hobson's last days
7. John Horsefield, of Prestwich
8. James Crowther, of Manchester
9. John Mellor, of Royton
10. Richard Buxton, of Manchester
11. John Martin, of Tyldesley
12. George Crozier and Thomas Townley, of Manchester
13. The less-known naturalists of Lancashire
14. Two Lancashire botanists not in humble life: John Just and William Wilson
15. Samuel Gibson, of Hebden Bridge
16. Elias Hall, of Castleton
17. Two Scottish naturalists in humble life: the 'Mad Baker' of Thurso, Thomas Edward of Banff
18. Mathematicians in humble life.