Australian Science in the Making
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- Editor: Roderick Weir Home, University of Melbourne
- Date Published: September 1990
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The Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science, as a contribution to the nation's bicentenary. Authors with wide-ranging fields of interest present a group of general surveys and case studies on the development of scientific understanding and research. Topics range from traditional Aboriginal conceptions of the workings of nature to the directions and priorities of the present day. Among issues the book addresses are the place of science in a colonial society; the relationship between science in Australia and elsewhere, especially Britain; the impact of war on the Australian scientific institutions. Published in association with the Australian Academy of Science.
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- Date Published: September 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521396400
- length: 444 pages
- dimensions: 246 x 189 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.79kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction R. W. Home
Part I. Early Days:
1. Aboriginal conceptions of the workings of nature L. R. Hiatt and Rhys Jones
2. Philosophical travellers at the ends of the earth: Baudin, Peron and the Tasmanians M. J. Hughes
3. Cultural transmission: science and society to 1850 S. Jack
Part II. Science in a Colonial Society:
4. The long arm of London: Sir Roderick Murchison and imperial science in Australia R. A. Stafford
5. Support for the scientific enterprise, 1850–1900 I. Inkster and J. Todd
6. Baron von Mueller: protege turned patron A. M. Lucas
7. Gorilla warfare in Melbourne: Halford, Huxley and 'Man's place in nature' B. W. Butcher
8. 'Sweetness and light': industrial research in the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, 1855–1900 G. Bindon and D. P. Miller
Part III. Passage to Modernity:
9. Cancer, physics and society: interactions between the wars H. Hamersley
10. Science on service, 1939–45 R. W. Home
11. Plant introduction in Australia R. L. Burt and W. T. Williams
12. Research in the medical sciences: the road to national independence F. C. Courtice
13. Early years of Australian radio astronomy W. T. Sullivan, III
14. Australian astronomy since the Second World War S. C. B. Gascoigne
15. The shaping of contemporary scientific institutions R. Johnston and J. Buckley
Index.
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