Where There''s a Will, There''s a Way! - Or, Science in Cottage; an Account of Labours of Naturalists in

Klappentext This 1873 book acclaims the contribution of self-taught working men to British natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung This 1873 book celebrates the achievements of working men in natural history! while promoting a 'self-help' ideology! stressing how disadvantages could be overcome by ability and determination. Many of his subjects were self-taught! but corresponded with! and were valued by! great names including Joseph Banks and William Jackson Hooker. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Early English botanists; 2. Botany in Lancashire; 3. John Dewhurst: political troubles; 4. George Caley; 5. Edward Hobson, of Manchester; 6. The Banksian Society of Manchester: Hobson's last days; 7. John Horsefield, of Prestwich; 8. James Crowther, of Manchester; 9. John Mellor, of Royton; 10. Richard Buxton, of Manchester; 11. John Martin, of Tyldesley; 12. George Crozier and Thomas Townley, of Manchester; 13. The less-known naturalists of Lancashire; 14. Two Lancashire botanists not in humble life: John Just and William Wilson; 15. Samuel Gibson, of Hebden Bridge; 16. Elias Hall, of Castleton; 17. Two Scottish naturalists in humble life: the 'Mad Baker' of Thurso, Thomas Edward of Banff; 18. Mathematicians in humble life.

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• Authors: James Cash, Cash James
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2011
• EAN: 9781108037907
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03790-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Education
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); NATURE / General, SCIENCE / History, natural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Nature and the natural world: general interest, C 1700 To C 1800