Add to ORKGAcademy of Science. The letter sought advice on a sabbatical project on the ‘impact of Australian historic frontiers on the development of Australian natural science’. Beidleman had undertaken a study of the relation between the American frontier and natural science in the 1950s, and saw Australia as a logical extension: ‘The comparison is so similar, indeed, that one finds the same people carrying out natural science exploration in the two countries, as you appreciate’, he wrote.1 Hoare’s response to the question of ‘frontier science ’ was to translate it as ‘colonial science’. His ‘futuristic dream is to do a study of the science in the old “Empire
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In 1769, Alexander Dalrymple, still young in his career of schemes, acrimony and hard work, was reco...
When Queensland became its own colony in December 1859, John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), a Scottish Pr...
In this paper I propose to examine the role of one colonial scientific organization in elaborating a...
Under the Pax Britannica the New Zealand and Australian colonies shared a common learning environmen...
German scientists made substantial and notable contributions to colonial Victoria. They were involve...
This thesis examines the circulation of physics between Australia and Cambridge from 1850 to 1950, a...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1980 Lee KellyAustralian land explorers of the 19th centu...
North Queensland is the most successful example in the British Commonwealth of a tropical region set...
Ferdinand Mueller first used correspondence to undertake projects in botany while working as an appr...
After the broad brush of the topographical features of Australia and New Zealand had been mapped, th...
From March to November 1948, 17 scientists made up the American-Australian Scientific Expedition (AA...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the origins of tensions between the benefits (such ...
Missions were not simply sites of modernity, they were also the source of key data for the modernist...
In 1948 a collection of scientists, anthropologists and photographers journeyed to northern Australi...
The borders of the Northern Territory enclose more than one sixth of the Australian continent, an ex...
In 1769, Alexander Dalrymple, still young in his career of schemes, acrimony and hard work, was reco...
When Queensland became its own colony in December 1859, John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), a Scottish Pr...
In this paper I propose to examine the role of one colonial scientific organization in elaborating a...
Under the Pax Britannica the New Zealand and Australian colonies shared a common learning environmen...
German scientists made substantial and notable contributions to colonial Victoria. They were involve...
This thesis examines the circulation of physics between Australia and Cambridge from 1850 to 1950, a...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1980 Lee KellyAustralian land explorers of the 19th centu...
North Queensland is the most successful example in the British Commonwealth of a tropical region set...
Ferdinand Mueller first used correspondence to undertake projects in botany while working as an appr...
After the broad brush of the topographical features of Australia and New Zealand had been mapped, th...
From March to November 1948, 17 scientists made up the American-Australian Scientific Expedition (AA...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the origins of tensions between the benefits (such ...
Missions were not simply sites of modernity, they were also the source of key data for the modernist...
In 1948 a collection of scientists, anthropologists and photographers journeyed to northern Australi...
The borders of the Northern Territory enclose more than one sixth of the Australian continent, an ex...
In 1769, Alexander Dalrymple, still young in his career of schemes, acrimony and hard work, was reco...
When Queensland became its own colony in December 1859, John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), a Scottish Pr...