Download or read book Report of the President and Council of the Royal Society on the Instructions to be Prepared for the Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic Regions written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the President and Council of the Royal Society on the Instructions to be Prepared for the Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic Regions written by Royal Society and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1840, these reports were prepared for the expedition of James Ross and serve to illuminate its scientific objectives.
Download or read book Report of the President and Council of the Royal Society written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Download or read book Geography Technology and Instruments of Exploration written by Fraser MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.
Download or read book Report of the President and Council of the Royal Society on the Instructions to be Prepared for the Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic Regions written by Trieste Publishing Pty Limited and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polar Pioneers written by M. Ross and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-11-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1818 John Ross led an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage. He got as far as Baffin Bay, but when he reached the only practicable entrance to the passage he declared it to be no more than a bay enclosed by mountains. In subsequent years he was widely derided for that error and carried the scars of public and professional humiliation for the rest of his life. In 1829 he mounted a private expedition to search for the passage, during which he became trapped in the Canadian Arctic and survived a four-year ordeal of isolation and hardship. He proved that whatever his shortcomings as an explorer, he could never be accused of lacking courage. James Clark Ross was one of the most experienced and respected explorers of his day. He led or took part in eight expeditions to the Arctic, including John Ross' 1818 and 1829 expeditions and three with the great explorer William Edward Parry. He also led a highly successful scientific expedition to the Antarctic in 1839-43. His many important discoveries included locating the North Magnetic Pole, and he ensured the presence of the Ross family name throughout both polar regions: Ross Island, Ross Ice Shelf, and Ross Sea in the Antarctic; James Ross Strait, Ross Bay, Ross Point, and Rossøya in the Arctic. Drawing on family papers and extensive research, M.J. Ross traces the careers of these two very different men, highlighting their achievements and defeats, and presents a detailed picture of their private lives.
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Download or read book The Wardian Case written by Luke Keogh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons bloom in gardens across the world, and yet many of the most common varieties have roots in Asia. How is this global flowering possible? In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle, intending to observe the moth hatch. But when a fern and meadow grass sprouted from the soil, he accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in glass containers could survive for long periods without watering. After four years of experimentation in his London home, Ward created traveling glazed cases that would be able to transport plants around the world. Following a test run from London to Sydney, Ward was proven correct: the Wardian case was born, and the botanical makeup of the world’s flora was forever changed. In our technologically advanced and globalized contemporary world, it is easy to forget that not long ago it was extremely difficult to transfer plants from place to place, as they often died from mishandling, cold weather, and ocean salt spray. In this first book on the Wardian case, Luke Keogh leads us across centuries and seas to show that Ward’s invention spurred a revolution in the movement of plants—and that many of the repercussions of that revolution are still with us, from new industries to invasive plant species. From the early days of rubber, banana, tea, and cinchona cultivation—the last used in the production of the malaria drug quinine—to the collecting of beautiful and exotic flora like orchids in the first great greenhouses of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, and England’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Wardian case transformed the world’s plant communities, fueled the commercial nursery trade and late nineteenth-century imperialism, and forever altered the global environment.
Download or read book Catalogue of books in the general library and in the South library written by London univ, univ. coll, libr and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Download or read book Transactions of the Albany Institute written by Albany Institute and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the President and Council of the Royal Society on the Instructions to be Prepared for the Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic Regions Supplement written by Royal Society (London) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity Magnetism the Electric Telegraph Etc written by Francis Ronalds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1880, this is a catalogue of over 13,000 titles kept by the Society of Telegraph Engineers.
