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  • David Charles Gooding(21 November 1947–13 December 2009)

  • GEOFFREY CANTOR, FRANK JAMES
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 43 / Issue 3 / September 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 September 2010, pp. 459-467
    Print publication:
    September 2010
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Rough Notes Taken during some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes
  • Francis Bond Head
  • Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    20 July 2009
    First published in:
    1826
  • Sir Francis Bond Head (1793–1875) known as 'Galloping Head', was a soldier who later served as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, but who was dismissed from his post when rebellion broke out there in 1837. Before this, he had tried unsuccessfully to set up a mining company in Argentina. It is from this period of his life that the characteristically entitled Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes (published in 1826) were written, in a headlong and jocular style which belies the actual hardships of his journey. Part of the interest of the account today lies in the fact that Charles Darwin had read it and referred to it frequently and admiringly in his letters home as he traversed the same country six years later: 'Do you know Head's book? it gives an excellent account of the manners of this country'.

The Weather of the 1780s Over Europe
  • John Kington
  • Published online:
    06 August 2010
    Print publication:
    31 March 1988
  • John Kington's book, the first of its kind, gives a definitive account of the weather in the 1780s over Europe based on historical weather maps. These charts are unique in forming the earliest series of daily synoptic weather maps constructed with quantitative instrumental data, and as such represent an important contribution to the history of climate.

  • Linnaeans outdoors: the transformative role of studying nature ‘on the move’ and outside

  • HANNA HODACS
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 2 / June 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 June 2010, pp. 183-209
    Print publication:
    June 2011

  • Travelling is an activity closely associated with Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) and his circle of students. This article discusses the transformative role of studying nature outdoors (turning novices into naturalists) in eighteenth-century Sweden, using the little-known journeys of Carl Bäck (1760–1776), Sven Anders Hedin (1750–1821) and Johan Lindwall (1743–1796) as examples. On these journeys, through different parts of Sweden in the 1770s, the outdoors was used, simultaneously, as both a classroom and a space for exploration. The article argues that this multifunctional use of the landscape (common within the Linnaean tradition) encouraged a democratization of the consumption of scientific knowledge and also, to some degree, of its production. More generally, the study also addresses issues of how and why science and scientists travel by discussing how botanical knowledge was reproduced and extended ‘on the move’, and what got senior and junior students moving.

  • Science as an ally of religion: a Muslim appropriation of ‘the conflict thesis’

  • M. ALPER YALCINKAYA
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 2 / June 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 June 2010, pp. 161-181
    Print publication:
    June 2011

  • John W. Draper's History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874) is commonly regarded as the manifesto of the ‘conflict thesis’. The superficiality of this thesis has been demonstrated in recent studies, but to read Draper's work only as a text on ‘science versus religion’ is to miss half of its significance, as it also involved evaluations of individual religions with respect to their attitudes towards science. Due to Draper's favourable remarks on Islam, the Ottoman author Ahmed Midhat translated his work into Turkish, and published it along with his own comments on Draper's arguments. Midhat interpreted Islam using the cues provided by Draper, and portrayed it as the only religion compatible with science. While his Christian readers condemned Draper for his approach to Islam, Midhat transformed the ‘conflict thesis’ into a proclamation that Islam and science were allies in opposition to Christian encroachment on the Ottoman Empire. This paper analyses Midhat's appropriation of Draper's work and compares it to the reaction of Draper's Christian readers. It discusses the context that made an alliance between Islam and science so desirable for Midhat, and emphasizes the impact of the historico-geographical context on the encounters between and representations of science and religion.

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