R W Home
Biographic Data
| ID | 1037732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R W Home |
| GIVEN NAMES | R W |
| FAMILY NAME | Home |
| SIGNATURE | HOME R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
Western science entered the Pacific with James Cook’s three expeditions commencing in 1768. These and those that followed were made possible by scientific advances, especially in relation to long-distance navigation at sea and the control of scurvy among ships’ crews. Partly prompted by dreams of national glory and imperial expansion, they were ostensibly undertaken for purely scientific purposes – to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun i…
Technical expertise in colonial Australia
Books
A beguiling story
Patricia Fara, Fatal attraction: magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment. Icon Books, Cambridge, 2005. pp. x+206. £9.99 (hardback). 1-84046-632-4. A magnet's power of acting at a distance on other magnets or pieces of iron, without any apparent intermediary, and also its turning, when freely
The Royal Society and the Empire
In the first part of this paper I provided a systematic historical analysis of the election of residents of Britain's colonial territories to The Royal Society of London in the period before the reform of the Society's rules in 1847. Residents of the colonies were always eligible for election on the Home List and significant numbers of Fellows were elected on the basis of colonial careers. In the present paper the analysis is extended to reveal t…
The Royal Society and the Empire
Under the statutes of The Royal Society of London, residents of Britain's colonial territories were always eligible for election to the Fellowship on the Home List. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, significant numbers of colonial scientists were elected under this rule. A systematic analysis of the evolution of the Society's rules relating to non–resident Fellows provides the basis for a comprehensive survey of those elected, before…
Dsir
Ferdinand Mueller
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Humboldtian Science Revisited
Susan Faye Cannon montre que la science du XIX e siecle est une science Humboldtienne, et decrit les travaux scientifiques de physiciens australiens du XIX e et debut du XX e siecles, afin de demontrer que la construction d'une discipline est liee a l'essor social et intellectuel des institutions
Science and Technology in the Story of Australian Federation
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Postwar Scientific Intelligence Missions to Japan
Why Explore Antarctica
International Science and National Scientific Identity
The Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne
Un physicien au siècle des lumières
Rudolf Stichweh, Zur Enstehung des modernen Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen
First Physicist of Australia
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Essay Review
The Problem of Intellectual Isolation in Scientific Life
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Origins of the Australian physics community
Poisson's Memoirs on Electricity
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) was a major figure in French science throughout the first forty years of the nineteenth century. Though his papers lack the brilliant mathematical creativity of some of those published by even more gifted contemporaries such as Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) and Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), they nevertheless display a formidable talent for mathematical analysis, applied with great industry and success in a large…
Guest Editorial
Nollet and Boerhaave
Newtonianism' and the Theory of the Magnet
Benjamin Franklin
Humboldtian Science Revisited
Susan Faye Cannon montre que la science du XIX e siecle est une science Humboldtienne, et decrit les travaux scientifiques de physiciens australiens du XIX e et debut du XX e siecles, afin de demontrer que la construction d'une discipline est liee a l'essor social et intellectuel des institutions
Science and Technology in the Story of Australian Federation
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
International Science and National Scientific Identity
The Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne
The Problem of Intellectual Isolation in Scientific Life
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Dsir
First Physicist of Australia
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Postwar Scientific Intelligence Missions to Japan
Nollet and Boerhaave
Newtonianism' and the Theory of the Magnet
Aepinus and the British Electricians
The Engineer as Physicist Coulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-Century France . C. Stewart Gillmor
Aepinus and the British Electricians
Some manuscripts on electrical and other subjects attributed to Thomas Bayes, F. R. S
Among the Canton Papers in the Library of the Royal Society there are two items, written in a very distinctive and different hand from the other documents in the collection, that have been attributed to the mathematician Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), discoverer of the theorem named in his honour that is so well known to present-day statisticians (1). A notebook in a similar hand is preserved elsewhere in London, in the archives of the Equitable Life …
Benjamin Franklin
Aepinus, the Tourmaline Crystal, and the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
Newtonianism' and the Theory of the Magnet
Nollet and Boerhaave
Guest Editorial
Origins of the Australian physics community
Poisson's Memoirs on Electricity
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) was a major figure in French science throughout the first forty years of the nineteenth century. Though his papers lack the brilliant mathematical creativity of some of those published by even more gifted contemporaries such as Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) and Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), they nevertheless display a formidable talent for mathematical analysis, applied with great industry and success in a large…
The Problem of Intellectual Isolation in Scientific Life
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Essay Review
First Physicist of Australia
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Rudolf Stichweh, Zur Enstehung des modernen Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen
International Science and National Scientific Identity
The Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne
Un physicien au siècle des lumières
Why Explore Antarctica
Postwar Scientific Intelligence Missions to Japan
Science and Technology in the Story of Australian Federation
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Humboldtian Science Revisited
Susan Faye Cannon montre que la science du XIX e siecle est une science Humboldtienne, et decrit les travaux scientifiques de physiciens australiens du XIX e et debut du XX e siecles, afin de demontrer que la construction d'une discipline est liee a l'essor social et intellectuel des institutions
Ferdinand Mueller
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Dsir
The Royal Society and the Empire
Under the statutes of The Royal Society of London, residents of Britain's colonial territories were always eligible for election to the Fellowship on the Home List. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, significant numbers of colonial scientists were elected under this rule. A systematic analysis of the evolution of the Society's rules relating to non–resident Fellows provides the basis for a comprehensive survey of those elected, before…
The Royal Society and the Empire
In the first part of this paper I provided a systematic historical analysis of the election of residents of Britain's colonial territories to The Royal Society of London in the period before the reform of the Society's rules in 1847. Residents of the colonies were always eligible for election on the Home List and significant numbers of Fellows were elected on the basis of colonial careers. In the present paper the analysis is extended to reveal t…
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