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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. Library,Charles Darwin,Joseph Banks,Paule Marie Louise Tomkinson,Walter Campbell Smith,William Elgin Swinton,John Whitaker Tomkinson,Peter James Palmer Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0119809702
Author : Walter Campbell Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Mineralogy
ISBN : OSU:32435000814582
Author : C.V. Burek,B.M. Higgs
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786204967
The Geological Society of London was founded in 1807. At the time, membership was restricted to men, many of whom became well-known names in the history of the geological sciences. On the 21 May 1919, the first female Fellows were elected to the Society, 112 years after its formation. This Special Publication celebrates the centenary of that important event. In doing so it presents the often untold stories of pioneering women geoscientists from across the world who navigated male-dominated academia and learned societies, experienced the harsh realities of Siberian field-exploration, or responded to the strategic necessity of the ‘petroleum girls’ in early American oil exploration and production. It uncovers important female role models in the history of science, and investigates why not all of these women received due recognition from their contemporaries and peers. The work has identified a number of common issues that sometimes led to original work and personal achievements being lost or unacknowledged, and as a consequence, to histories being unwritten.
Author : Neil Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317303640
Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.
Author : Gerald Joseph Home McCall,A. J. Bowden,Richard John Howarth
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862391947
This Special Publication has 24 papers with an international authorship, and is prefaced by an introductory overview which presents highlights in the field. The first section covers the acceptance by science of the reality of the falls of rock and metal from the sky, an account that takes the reader from BCE (before common era) to the nineteenth century. The second section details some of the world's most important collections in museums - their origins and development. The Smithsonian chapter also covers the astonishingly numerous finds in the cold desert of Antarctica by American search parties. There are also contributions covering the finds by Japanese parties in the Yamato mountains and the equally remarkable discoveries in the hot deserts of Australia, North Africa, Oman and the USA. The other seven chapters take the reader through the revolution in scientific research on meteoritics in the later part of the twentieth century, including terrestrial impact cratering and extraordinary showers of glass from the sky; tektites, now known to be Earth-impact-sourced. Finally, the short epilogue looks to the future.
Author : Cherry Lewis,Simon J. Knell
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862392773
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000682489
Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences. The bibliography is not exhaustive but provides a detailed and critical index to the most important literature in the field. The book’s core focus is geology and examines the subject broadly, covering everything from glaciology, geomorphology, natural history and palaeontology, to oceanography, mapping, stratigraphy and evolution. The book provides detailed essays for each bibliographical chapter on the state of each field of research and the literature compiled for each bibliography will go as far back as around 1700 and contains a wide range of sources from across the world. This book will be of interest to academics and students of natural history, geology, and environmental sciences alike.
Author : B. Dolan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230288980
The explorations of eighteenth-century travellers to the 'European frontiers' were often geared to define the cultural, political, and historical boundaries of 'European civilization.' In an age when political revolutions shocked nations into reassessing what separated the civilised from the barbaric, how did literary travellers contemplate the characteristics of their continental neighbours? Focusing on the writings of British travellers, we see how a new view of Europe was created, one that juxtaposed the customs and living conditions of populations in an attempt to define 'modern' Europe against a 'yet unenlightened' Europe.
Author : John G. Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520322141
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226731001
"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science "After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual lives. . . . [It] could become one of our century's key documents in understanding science and its history."—Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books "Surely one of the most important studies in the history of science of recent years, and arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science
Author : Carole Paul
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606061206
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the first modern, public museums of art—civic, state, or national—appeared throughout Europe, setting a standard for the nature of such institutions that has made its influence felt to the present day. Although the emergence of these museums was an international development, their shared history has not been systematically explored until now. Taking up that project, this volume includes chapters on fifteen of the earliest and still major examples, from the Capitoline Museum in Rome, opened in 1734, to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, opened in 1836. These essays consider a number of issues, such as the nature, display, and growth of the museums’ collections and the role of the institutions in educating the public. The introductory chapters by art historian Carole Paul, the volume’s editor, lay out the relationship among the various museums and discuss their evolution from private noble and royal collections to public institutions. In concert, the accounts of the individual museums give a comprehensive overview, providing a basis for understanding how the collective emergence of public art museums is indicative of the cultural, social, and political shifts that mark the transformation from the early-modern to the modern world. The fourteen distinguished contributors to the book include Robert G. W. Anderson, former director of the British Museum in London; Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University; Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute; and Andrew McClellan, dean of academic affairs and professor of art history at Tufts University. Show more Show less
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Mineralogy
ISBN : 0565006363
Author : British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015082551865
Author : Holger Pedersen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788771702132
Almost 700 kilograms of the finest iron, mixed with transparent, beautiful crystals! This was the rare and unexpected discovery made in 1771 near the river Jenisei, central Siberia. The German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas - then wintering in the town Krasnoyarsk - was convinced that the mass was a 'product of Nature', and not a leftover from ancient miner's simple kilns. He quickly reported his find to the scientific world, and sent pieces around, which he had chopped off. While the mass is now officially named 'Krasnojarsk', it is often referred to as 'Pallas Iron', or, in Russian 'Pallasovo Zheleso'. It took years of intense debate, however, before its origin in interplanetary space was firmly concluded. In honor of the discoverer, the specific type of meteorite is now known as 'pallasite'. Holger Pedersen has studied the old reports, and found hints that other fragments were found nearby. From comparison to a Chilean meteorite of the same type, Imilac, he concludes that these fragments were scattered when a second, large piece of the Krasnojarsk meteoroid hit ground. This conclusion is supported by the morphology of numerous museum-samples, which lack marks from the pounding by hammer and chisel. Among some facts revealed by papers in the archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) is the identity of the scout, who brought the first tiny sample to Pallas' attention; this name is here revealed for the first time. Also, it can be concluded that Pallas' original illustration, which shows the meteorite at the foot of a male Samoyede, was made using a 'camera obscura'.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100004615U