A Science of Our Own - Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science

Explores the influential work of local botanists, chemists, and geologists - William B. Clarke, Joseph Bosisto, Robert Brough Smyth, and Ferdinand Mueller - who contributed to shaping a distinctive public science in Australia during the nineteenth century.

About the author

Peter H. Hoffenberg is associate professor of history at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. He also serves as editor and treasurer of the Pacific Circle, an international organization dedicated to the study of science and the history of science in the Pacific region.

Summary

The Development of a Distinctive Public Science in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Product details

• Authors: Peter H Hoffenberg, Peter H. Hoffenberg
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780822945765
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4576-5
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)