Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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 : 1190
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 : 1060
Book Description
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
Report of the Annual Meeting
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Notices of the Proceedings
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer
Author: Bernard E. LeakePublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393233
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a 'homeland' for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Bulletin ...
Author: University of St. Andrews. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Report of the Annual Meeting
Author: British Association for the Advancement of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Science and society in southern Africa
Author: Saul DubowPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526119781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination. Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.