Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Report ... Of The British Association For The Advancement Of Science
Author: Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Author: R. Charles MollanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526101939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland. The book gives details, in an attractive non-technical style which requires no previous scientific knowledge, of his engineering initiatives and the astronomical results, but also reveals much more about the man and his contributions – locally in the town and county around Birr, in political and other functions in an Ireland administered by the Protestant Ascendancy, in the development and activities of the Royal Society, of which he was President from 1848–54, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The Countess of Rosse, who receives full acknowledgement in the book, was a woman of many talents, among which was her pioneering work in photography, and the book includes reproductions of her artistic exposures, and many other attractive illustrations.
Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840–1910
Author: Lee T. MacdonaldPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983494
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteenth century, it was a world-leading center for four major sciences: geomagnetism, meteorology, solar physics, and standardization. Long before government cutbacks forced its closure in 1980, the observatory was run by both major bodies responsible for the management of science in Britain: first the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and then, from 1871, the Royal Society. Kew Observatory influenced and was influenced by many of the larger developments in the physical sciences during the second half of the nineteenth century, while many of the major figures involved were in some way affiliated with Kew. Lee T. Macdonald explores the extraordinary story of this important scientific institution as it rose to prominence during the Victorian era. His book offers fresh new insights into key historical issues in nineteenth-century science: the patronage of science; relations between science and government; the evolution of the observatory sciences; and the origins and early years of the National Physical Laboratory, once an extension of Kew and now the largest applied physics organization in the United Kingdom.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Report of the ... Meeting
Author: British Association for the Advancement of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Author: British Museum