Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England (Variorum Collected Studies)

by Roy MacLeod

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This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod's work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of science as a responsibility and opportunity for 19th-century statecraft. It illuminates the origins of environmental regulation, the creation of scientific inspectorates, the reform of scientific instit.

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Robert Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. Wendy Brazil took her BA at the University of Sydney, MA degrees in Classics and Linguistics at the Australian National University, and a MEd degree at the University of Canberra. She has been a research officer in Parliament House, a librarian at the National show more Library of Australia, a tutor in education at the University of Canberra, a theatre reviewer, and is currently a Fellow of University House at the ANU. She also is a teacher of Latin and Greek in secondary schools and at the Centre for Continuing Education (ANU). J.R. Green is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He is Director of the University's excavations in Paphos, Cyprus, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies, London. Patricia Cannon Johnson was born in England, and studied conservation of antiquities at the University of London Institute of Archaeology. She then worked for thirteen years in the Egyptian and Greek and Roman departments of the British Museum. In 1980, after a period as a freelance, she became Conservator at the Nicholson Museum of the University of Sydney, from which she retired in 1997. She now works as a writer, restorer, and teacher of Mystery studies. Samuel N.C. Lieu is the Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, and co-Director of its Ancient History Documentary Research Centre. He was previously Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick University, and Director of its Centre for Research in East Roman Studies. Since 1990, he has been coordinator of the Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum Project. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London) and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Roy MacLeod is the Professor of History at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge and he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and of the Academy for the Social Sciences in Australia. D.T. Potts is Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He is Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London) and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. R.G. Tanner is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. He graduated from Cambridge in 1952, and subsequently taught at Melbourne University, 1953-5, and at The King's School Parramatta, 1957-1959, before moving to Newcastle as a Senior Lecturer in 1960. He was Foundation Professor of Classics at Newcastle from 1964 to 1993. He was Commonwealth Fellow at St. John's, Cambridge, 1967-68, and President of ASCS, 1992-95. John Vallance is Head master of Sydney Grammar School. He read Classics at the University of Sydney, and St. John's College Cambridge. Between 1986 and 1993, he was a Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, lecturing in Classics and the History of Science. J.O. Ward is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. show less

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Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature, Politics and Government, Technology
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507.942Natural sciences & mathematicsScienceEducation, research, related topics
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Q127 .G4 .M25ScienceScience (General)General
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