Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hoffenberg, Peter H. (1960-....)
Titre(s) : A science of our own [Texte imprimé] : exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science / Peter H. Hoffenberg
Publication : Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-196 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Lien à la collection : Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 143-189
"When the Reverend Henry Carmichael opened the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in
1833, he introduced a bold directive: for Australia to advance on the scale of nations,
it needed to develop a science of its own. Prominent scientists in the colonies of
New South Wales and Victoria answered this call by participating in popular exhibitions
far and near, from London's Crystal Place in 1851 to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide,
and Brisbane during the final decades of the nineteenth century"
Sujet(s) : Expositions -- Australie -- 19e siècle
Expositions et société -- Australie -- 19e siècle
Sciences -- Expositions -- Australie -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
507.4 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Musées, collections, expositions
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780822945765. - ISBN 0822945762 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46528995h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46528995
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : "Nearly all possible and impossible things under the sun" : exhibiting Australian
science at home and abroad ; "Men who are an ornament to science" : scientists from
New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland at the exhibitions ; "From the empire of
plants I have always endeavoured" : Ferdinand von Mueller and the exhibitions ; "Dwellers
in the desert libing in tents" : exhibitions and overcoming scientific distance, isolation,
and wandering ; "The physical, social, and moral conditions of man" : scientists,
the "sciences of man," and the Australian Aboriginal past ; Conclusions: Theoretical
and historiographic reflections on nineteenth-century Austrlaian science and exhibitions.
