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  • British women who contributed to research in the geological sciences in the nineteenth century

  • Mary R. S. Creese, Thomas M. Creese
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / March 1994
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    05 January 2009, pp. 23-54
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    March 1994
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  • A count of articles by women listed in the Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800–1900, the nineteen-volume international index brought out by the Royal Society, produced a collection of almost 4000 titles of papers by about 1000 nineteenth-century women authors. Out of 181 geology papers in this collection, 118 (65 per cent) were by British women (see Table 1, columns 1 and 2). This finding is especially remarkable when considered against the more general background of nineteenth-century women's work in science (at least as judged from women's contributions to the journal literature indexed by the Royal Society). In most fields American workers considerably outnumbered British and published many more papers. Geology, however, is an exception, with the British dominating the field by a wide margin. This essay discusses a number of the British women of the period who carried out work in geology, and offers some suggestions that go toward explaining their striking prominence among their contemporaries.

  • ‘Nullius in verba’ and ‘nihil in verbis’: public understanding of the role of language in science

  • Clive Sutton
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / March 1994
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    05 January 2009, pp. 55-64
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    March 1994

  • This paper is about how the motto of the Royal Society has sometimes been misread, but it is also about how such a misreading could arise at all, and why it persists. I argue that the error is intimately associated with a traditional view of scientific language as a medium for descriptive reporting, a view which has been very influential in schools, and is consequently perpetuated in the public understanding of science. Much new scholarship confirms that this ‘straightforward’ view of what scientists do can no longer be accepted at face value, and that the role of language in science is more intimate and subtle in its interpretive and persuasive qualities. A renewed study of the motto is interesting in itself, but it will also serve to introduce these wider matters. Perhaps it may help some more teachers to escape from those received ideas about language which have restricted the range of learning activities in school science, and discouraged a full attention to the words in which scientists choose to express their ideas.

  • Editorial note

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / March 1994
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    05 January 2009, p. 1
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    March 1994
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