Annals of the Royal Society Club - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annals of the Royal Society Club write by Archibald Geikie. This book was released on 1917. Annals of the Royal Society Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Aspects of the Life and Works of Archibald Geikie
Aspects of the Life and Works of Archibald Geikie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspects of the Life and Works of Archibald Geikie write by J. Betterton. This book was released on 2019-06-19. Aspects of the Life and Works of Archibald Geikie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) was one of the most distinguished and influential geologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, President of the Geological Society of London, President of the British Association, Trustee of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society. He was also an accomplished writer, a masterful lecturer and a talented artist who published over 200 scientific papers, books and articles. The papers in this volume examine aspects of Geikie’s life and works, including his family history, his personal and professional relationships, his art, and his contributions as a field geologist and administrator. Together, they provide a deeper understanding of his life, his career and his contribution to the development of Geology as a scientific discipline. Much of the research is based on primary sources, including previously unpublished manuscripts, donated in part by members of the family to the Haslemere Educational Museum, UK.
Martin Folkes (1690-1754)
Martin Folkes (1690-1754) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martin Folkes (1690-1754) write by Anna Marie Roos. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Martin Folkes (1690-1754) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
The Geographical Journal
The Geographical Journal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geographical Journal write by . This book was released on 1917. The Geographical Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Science Progress
Science Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Progress write by . This book was released on 1918. Science Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
