Alistair Sponsel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Sponsel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Sponsel |
| SIGNATURE | SPONSEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Amphibious Being
This essay argues that Charles Darwin's distinctive approach to studying distribution and diversity was shaped by his face-to-face interactions with maritime surveyors during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836). Introducing their hydrographic surveying methods into natural history enabled him to compare fossil and living marine organisms, to compare sedimentary rocks to present-day marine sediments, and to compare landscapes to submarine topo…
Cambridge scientific mindsFrom Newton to hawking
Constructing a ‘revolution in science’
A patriot fiddler-composer of Luton Wrote a funeral march which he played with the mute on, To record, as he said, that a Jewish-Swiss-Teuton Had partially scrapped the Principia of Newton. Punch , 19 November 1919, p. 422 When the results of experiments performed during the British solar eclipse expeditions of 1919 were announced at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, they were celebrated in the next day's Ti…
Constructing a ‘revolution in science’
A patriot fiddler-composer of Luton Wrote a funeral march which he played with the mute on, To record, as he said, that a Jewish-Swiss-Teuton Had partially scrapped the Principia of Newton. Punch , 19 November 1919, p. 422 When the results of experiments performed during the British solar eclipse expeditions of 1919 were announced at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, they were celebrated in the next day's Ti…
An Amphibious Being
This essay argues that Charles Darwin's distinctive approach to studying distribution and diversity was shaped by his face-to-face interactions with maritime surveyors during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836). Introducing their hydrographic surveying methods into natural history enabled him to compare fossil and living marine organisms, to compare sedimentary rocks to present-day marine sediments, and to compare landscapes to submarine topo…
Constructing a ‘revolution in science’
A patriot fiddler-composer of Luton Wrote a funeral march which he played with the mute on, To record, as he said, that a Jewish-Swiss-Teuton Had partially scrapped the Principia of Newton. Punch , 19 November 1919, p. 422 When the results of experiments performed during the British solar eclipse expeditions of 1919 were announced at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, they were celebrated in the next day's Ti…
Cambridge scientific mindsFrom Newton to hawking
An Amphibious Being
This essay argues that Charles Darwin's distinctive approach to studying distribution and diversity was shaped by his face-to-face interactions with maritime surveyors during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836). Introducing their hydrographic surveying methods into natural history enabled him to compare fossil and living marine organisms, to compare sedimentary rocks to present-day marine sediments, and to compare landscapes to submarine topo…
Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of Science and Natural History (2 works) · Alexander von Humboldt Studies (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Citation (1 work)