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Author : Henry Ware Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044077699551
Author : Richard de Grijs,Andrew Jacob
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031387746
This book describes William Dawes’ life and professional achievements. William Dawes was a British Marine serving as the official astronomer on board the First Fleet making the 1787–1788 voyage from Britain to the new colony of New South Wales. Between 1788 and 1791, Dawes established not one but two observatories within a kilometre of Sydney’s present-day city centre, a full seven decades before the construction of Sydney’s historical Observatory at Dawes’ Point, today a stone’s throw from the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In this comprehensive biography, the authors discuss William Dawes’ life and his considerable impact—as astronomer, engineer, surveyor, ordnance officer and intellectual centre point—on the early colony in New South Wales (in essence, his impact on the earliest history of Sydney as a settlement) and, subsequently, on the British colonies of Sierra Leone on the West African coast and Antigua in the West Indies. Dawes’ life and professional achievements are closely linked to the earliest history of Sydney as a British settlement. He is often considered a man of high morals, and as such his interactions with the local populations in New South Wales, Sierra Leone and Antigua were mostly deemed respectful and above reproach. He is seen a truly enlightened individual, far ahead of his time. The authors of this book have a significant track record of successful and engaging communication of complex concepts in physics and astronomy with experts and non-experts alike. This biography touches on numerous aspects related to 18th century maritime navigation (“sailing on the stars”), societal relationships, the exploration of newly discovered lands, as well as the early history of Sydney and New South Wales, and the colonial histories of Sierra Leone and the West Indies. As such, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from scholars in the history of science and maritime navigation, to history enthusiasts ranging from local historians on Australia’s eastern seaboard to members of the public with a keen interest in British colonial history.
Author : sir William Dawes (3rd bart, abp. of York.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1733
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590289244
Author : Ross Gibson
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1742582974
Ross Gibson continues his speculative brilliance with this work on the astronomer and colonist William Dawes, using his notebooks as source material. It is an intellectual adventure around the tensions and pleasures of language and meaning, particularly Dawes' encounters under the southern stars, sharing ideas with a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. These were the years when Britain seized the Eora country, leading eventually to the establishment of the modern nation of Australia. Fragmentary, poetic and intriguing, Gibson describes, ponders and interprets the pages of Dawes' notebooks, which are reproduced throughout.
Author : Edward Augustus Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062854021
Author : Oliver Ayer Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024621757
Author : Oliver Ayer Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
ISBN : OSU:32435021326723
Author : Harry Bristow Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C24959
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Sunday schools
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6KE8
Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635928518
The classic poem in a newly illustrated edition. Paul Revere and his famous ride were immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in a poem published in 1861, more than eighty years after the even. Longfellow wrote the poem at the time of the Civil War. He hoped that his story of an ordinary citizen who comes to the aid of his country would stir patriotic feelings and support for the Union. He was right. In face, if it hadn't been for Longfellow, Paul Revere may have remained a local legend. The poem fired the imaginations of Americans and a national hero was born. This illustrated edition of the classic poem features vivid oil paintings by Monica Vachula, whose research into period and place can be seen in the smallest detail. A concluding note by historian Jayne Triber, author of A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere, explores the poem and Paul Revere's place in American history.
Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1574 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119246697
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064794153
V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).
Author : Middlesex (England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Catholics
ISBN : OXFORD:300072035
The country addresses, as well as the names, are given of Catholics indexed under Recusants; addresses and occupation are given for dissenters indexed as Conventiclers. Unique accounts of criminal and civil proceedings in London and Middlesex which involve people from all over the country.
Author : Annette B. Dunlap
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810134201
Charles Gates Dawes: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of an American in whose fascinating story contemporary readers can follow the struggles and triumphs of early twentieth-century America and Europe. Dawes is most known today as vice president of the United States under Calvin Coolidge, but he also distinguished himself and his hometown of Evanston, Illinois, on the world stage with the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize. This engrossing biography traces how, when the punitive armistice that ended the First World War resulted in a disabled, restive Germany, Dawes’s diplomatic legerdemain averted war through a renegotiation of Germany’s debt repayments. Dawes’s diplomatic and political achievements, however, were only the illustrious capstones to a multifaceted career that included military service, law, finance, and business on the local, state, national, and global stages. In every arena of his life, he combined the social graces of the Gilded Age with the spirit of service of the Progressive Era. Despite his life of disciplined service, Dawes was an ebullient and irrepressible figure. Dawes’s salty language was often colorful fodder for tabloid and magazine writers of his era. In this captivating biography, Annette B. Dunlap recounts the story of an original American who enlightened and enlivened his world. This book was published in cooperation with the Evanston History Center and with generous support from the Tawani Foundation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002678236