A science of our own : exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science /
"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 answere...
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Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2019
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Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |