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Author : John Frederick William Herschel
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sir John Herschel and Education at the Cape, 1834-1840 written by John Frederick William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomson Ferguson
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Sir John Herschel and Education at the Cape, 1834 to 1840 written by William Thomson Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Sir John Herschel and education at the Cape. 1834-1840. Compiled by W.T. Ferguson in collab. with R.F.M. Immelman. [With forew. by R.H. Stoy]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Case
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009237691
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel written by Stephen Case and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that being scientific in Victorian England meant to be as much like John Herschel as possible. This volume shows readers what it meant to be John Herschel (1792-1871), one of England's most prominent polymaths. Drawing on his published oeuvre and recent scholarship, as well as an immense amount of surviving archival material and correspondence, these essays present the first ever comprehensive account of Herschel's life, work, and legacy. From mathematics and astronomy, to philosophy and politics, the volume sheds new light on his crucial role in the history of Victorian science and explores a wide array of issues in the history of nineteenth-century culture, philosophy, mathematics, and beyond.
Author : Steven Ruskin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925156
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book John Herschel's Cape Voyage written by Steven Ruskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he was highly esteemed and became Britain's most recognized man of science. In 1847 his southern hemisphere astronomical observations were published as the Cape Results. The main argument of Ruskin's book is that Herschel's voyage and the publication of the Cape Results, in addition to their contemporary scientific importance, were also significant for nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this book it is demonstrated that the reason for Herschel's widespread cultural renown was the popular notion that his voyage to the Cape was a project aligned with the imperial ambitions of the British government. By leaving England for one of its colonies, and pursuing there a significant scientific project, Herschel was seen in the same light as other British men of science (like James Cook and Richard Lander) who had also undertaken voyages of exploration and discovery at the behest of their nation. It is then demonstrated that the production of the Cape Results, in part because of Herschel's status as Britain's scientific figurehead, was a significant political event. Herschel's decision to journey to the Cape for the purpose of surveying the southern heavens was of great significance to almost all of Britain and much of the continent. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the scientific, cultural, and political significance of Herschel's Cape voyage and astronomical observations, as a means of demonstrating the relationship of scientific practice to broader aspects of imperial culture and politics in the nineteenth century.
Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415668514
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Victorian Britain written by Sally Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book The John Herschel Bicentennial Symposium written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Keegan
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1770227113
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Dr Philip’s Empire written by Tim Keegan and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society in 1819, Philip played a major role in the idealist and humanitarian campaigns of the day, fighting for the emancipation of slaves, protecting the Khoi against injustice, and opposing the dispossession of the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape. A fascinating picture of South Africa and the British Empire during a time of great change, Dr Philip’s Empire documents Philip’s encounters with Dutch colonists, English settlers and indigenous South Africans, his never-ending battles with fellow missionaries and colonial authorities, and his lobbying among the powerful for indigenous people’s civil rights. A controversial and influential figure, Philip was considered an interfering radical subversive by believers in white superiority, but he has been labelled a condescending, hypocritical ‘white liberal’ in a more modern age. This book seeks to revive him from these judgements and to recover the real man and his noble but doomed struggles for justice in the context of his times.
Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425617
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870 written by Robert Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. His 1999 book describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language, and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of a colonial society.
Author : Saul Dubow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191516341
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Commonwealth of Knowledge written by Saul Dubow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and scientific institutions, and expert historical thinking about South Africa and its peoples, it demonstrates the ways in which the cultivation of knowledge has served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. In a sustained commentary on modern South African historiography, the significance of `broad' South Africanism - a political tradition designed to transcend differences between white English- and Afrikaans-speakers - is emphasized. A Commonwealth of Knowledge also engages with wider comparative debates. These include the nature of imperial and colonial knowledge systems; the role of intellectual ideas and concepts in constituting ethnic, racial, and regional identities; the dissemination of ideas between imperial metropole and colonial periphery; the emergence of amateur and professional intellectual communities; and the encounter between imperial and indigenous or local knowledge systems. The book has broad scope. It opens with a discussion of civic institutions (eg. museums, libraries, botanical gardens and scientific societies), and assesses their role in creating a distinctive sense of Cape colonial identity; the book goes on to discuss the ways in which scientific and other forms of knowledge contributed to the development of a capacious South Africanist patriotism compatible with continued membership of the British Commonwealth; it concludes with reflections on the techno-nationalism of the apartheid state and situates contemporary concerns like the `African Renaissance', and responses to HIV/AIDS, in broad historical context.
Author : Günther Buttmann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0718895274
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The Shadow of the Telescope written by Günther Buttmann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Günther Buttman’s The Shadow of the Telescope was the first full-length biography of the nineteenth-century astronomer, Sir John Herschel. First published in German, this intriguing text chronicles the life and works of the third of the Herschel astronomers, the son of William and the nephew of Caroline. John was extremely intelligent, graduating as Senior Wrangler in the notoriously difficult Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University. While less famous than his father and aunt, he nevertheless went on to make important discoveries in the field of astronomy. He named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus, the planet his father had only recently discovered. Making admirable use of John's unpublished correspondence, diaries, and notebooks, Buttman covers his extensive astronomical observations at Cape Town in South Africa, his pioneering work in photography and in physical optics in Britain, his unhappy experiences as Master of the Mint, and much more.
Author : John Herschel
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Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Herschel at the Cape written by John Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myles W. Jackson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262100847
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Spectrum of Belief written by Myles W. Jackson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this important transition. Fraunhofer came from a long line of glassmakers. Orphaned at age eleven, the young apprentice moved in with his master, the court decorative glass cutter. At age nineteen, bored with his work and angered by his master's refusal to allow him to study optical theory, Fraunhofer took a position at the Optical Institute assisting in the manufacture of achromatic lenses. Within ten years he was producing the world's finest achromatic lenses and prisms. Housed in an old Benedictine monastery, Fraunhofer's laboratory mirrored the labor of the monks. Because of his secrecy (after his death, even those who had worked most closely with him could not achieve his success), British experimental natural philosophers were unable to reproduce his work. This secrecy, while guaranteeing his institute's monopoly, thwarted Fraunhofer's attempts to gain credibility within the scientific community, which looked down on artisanal work and its clandestine practices as an affront. The response to the ensuing rise of German optical technology sheds light on crucial social, economic, and political issues of the period, such as mechanization, patent law reform, the role of skills in both physics and society, the rise of Mechanics' Institutes, and scientific patronage. After his death, Fraunhofer's example was used in the newly united Germany to argue for the merging of scientific research and technological innovation with industrial and state support.
Author : South African Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by South African Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of London. Institute of Education
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Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Collection of Education in Tropical Areas: Author catalogue written by University of London. Institute of Education and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalogue of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London: Biography. Voyages and travels. World War I. World War II written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 668 pages
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Download or read book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.
