David Oldroyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 976131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Oldroyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Oldroyd |
| SIGNATURE | OLDROYD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 58 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-1840
The paper investigates the Stephenson Company’s contribution to genesis of the railway industry by exploring its business model in its formative years. The Company capitalised on a well-developed business and technological infrastructure in the North-east of England that provided the building blocks for the creation of a new industry. It gained from its linkages with two social networks which provided it with a financial safety-net during the loc…
The U.S. Freedmen's Bureau in Post-Civil War Reconstruction
The transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War American South featured the efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau (FB) to help ex-slaves overcome an extremely hostile, racist environment that included the need to articulate new labor relations structures given the demise of the plantation system, to overcome the limitations on equality legislated by the infamous Black Codes, to address the pressing need to educate masses of highly illiter…
A Peculiarly Personal Encyclopedia
Nicolas Desmarest's Géographie-Physique , his contribution to the Encyclopédie Méthodique , is a surprisingly useful resource for his biographer. The four volumes he completed during his declining years offer insights into his activities over a long period, such as the extent of his travels, and the sorts of phenomena he selected for observation. Leaving aside those articles that he plagiarized, the many entries he wrote testify to the depth of h…
Early geology in focus
Mineralogy, chemistry, botany, medicine, geology, agriculture, meteorology, classification,…
Plantation accounting and management practices in the US and the British West Indies at the end of their slavery eras1
This article examines comparatively the slavery systems of the US and the British West Indies before and after their respective emancipations. The primary focus is on how differential factors in the two plantation economies, such as racial control, labour structures, and governmental mandates, impacted the development of accounting and those performing accounting functions. Other factors, such as plantation size and ownership structure, not only …
Geology and the Romantic Imagination
Disasters Are Political As Well As Natural
Elucidating the Emergence of Geology
The Politics of Earthquakes
The Physics of the Age of the Earth
Darwin’s Geology
Twed
On ‘The Origin Of Life’ (OOL)
All that You Never Needed to Know about Maps
The End of the World as We Know It
Rudwick’s Variorum II
Following the Money
Accounting, Coercion and Social Control During Apprenticeship
The paper describes the nature and role of accounting during apprenticeship – the transition period from slavery to waged labor in the British West Indies. Planters, colonial legislators, and Parliamentary leaders all feared that freed slaves would flee to open lands unless they were bound to plantations. Thus, rather than relying entirely on economic incentives to maintain viable plantations, the Abolition Act and subsequent local ordinances emb…
Theoretical perspectives on accounting for labor on slave plantations of the USA and British West Indies
The paper focuses on accounting for slave workers during one of the most morally culpable periods in Western civilization and is concerned with issues central to labor – modes of production, labor control, and labor productivity. It incorporates secondary sources and examination of records from over 150 different US and BWI plantations to identify contextual factors that motivated planters to organize their workforce in a particular way. The pape…
The Substrata of Geologists
Cambridge Biographers on Cambridge Scientists
Fossils in the Airport Lounge
Inheriting shame
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness
Plantation accounting and management practices in the US and the British West Indies at the end of their slavery eras1
This article examines comparatively the slavery systems of the US and the British West Indies before and after their respective emancipations. The primary focus is on how differential factors in the two plantation economies, such as racial control, labour structures, and governmental mandates, impacted the development of accounting and those performing accounting functions. Other factors, such as plantation size and ownership structure, not only …
Accounting, Coercion and Social Control During Apprenticeship
The paper describes the nature and role of accounting during apprenticeship – the transition period from slavery to waged labor in the British West Indies. Planters, colonial legislators, and Parliamentary leaders all feared that freed slaves would flee to open lands unless they were bound to plantations. Thus, rather than relying entirely on economic incentives to maintain viable plantations, the Abolition Act and subsequent local ordinances emb…
From Renaissance Mineral Studies to Historical Geology, in the Light of Michel Foucault's the Order of Things
In this paper we examine the study of minerals from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century in the light of the work of Michel Foucault on the history of systems of thought. In spite of a certain number of theoretical problems, Foucault's enterprise opens up to the historian of science a vast terrain for exploration. But this is the place neither for a general exegesis nor for a general criticism of his position; our aim here is the more …
Robert Hooke's Methodology of Science as exemplified in his ‘Discourse of Earthquakes’
A number of authors have drawn attention to the contributions to geology of Robert Hooke, and it has been pointed out that in several ways his ideas were more advanced than those of Steno, who is sometimes taken to be the founder of geology as a scientific discipline. Moreover, it has been argued that in a number of instances Hooke should receive the credit for ideas which are usually believed to have originated in the work of James Hutton. This …
How Did Darwin Arrive at His Theory? The Secondary Literature to 1982
Historicism and the Rise of Historical Geology, Part 1
Historicism and the Rise of Historical Geology, Part 2
The Role of Accounting in Public Expenditure and Monetary Policy in the First Century Ad Roman Empire
Previous authors have argued that Roman coinage was used as an instrument of financial control rather than simply as a means for the state to make payments, without assessing the accounting implications. The article reviews the literary and epigraphic evidence of the public expenditure accounts surrounding the Roman monetary system in the first century AD. This area has been neglected by accounting historians. Although the scope of the accounts s…
Grid/Group Analysis for Historians of Science
The U.S. Freedmen's Bureau in Post-Civil War Reconstruction
The transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War American South featured the efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau (FB) to help ex-slaves overcome an extremely hostile, racist environment that included the need to articulate new labor relations structures given the demise of the plantation system, to overcome the limitations on equality legislated by the infamous Black Codes, to address the pressing need to educate masses of highly illiter…
A Note on the Status of A. F. Cronstedt's Simple Earths and His Analytical Methods
Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), geologist, romantic aesthete, and historian of geology
The characteristics of inductivist historiography of science, as practised by earlier scientist/historians, and Whig historiography, as practised by earlier political historians, are described, according to the accounts of Agassi and Butterfield. It is suggested that the writings of Geikie on the history of geology allow us to characterize him as a Whig/inductivist historian of science who formulated anachronistic judgements. It is further sugges…
Robert Hooke's Methodology of Science as exemplified in his ‘Discourse of Earthquakes’
A number of authors have drawn attention to the contributions to geology of Robert Hooke, and it has been pointed out that in several ways his ideas were more advanced than those of Steno, who is sometimes taken to be the founder of geology as a scientific discipline. Moreover, it has been argued that in a number of instances Hooke should receive the credit for ideas which are usually believed to have originated in the work of James Hutton. This …
A Note on the Status of A. F. Cronstedt's Simple Earths and His Analytical Methods
Mineralogy and the 'Chemical Revolution'
A List of Ph.D. Theses in the History of Science and Related Areas in Australian Universities to 1976
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From Renaissance Mineral Studies to Historical Geology, in the Light of Michel Foucault's the Order of Things
In this paper we examine the study of minerals from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century in the light of the work of Michel Foucault on the history of systems of thought. In spite of a certain number of theoretical problems, Foucault's enterprise opens up to the historian of science a vast terrain for exploration. But this is the place neither for a general exegesis nor for a general criticism of his position; our aim here is the more …
Science in the Silver Age
Historicism and the Rise of Historical Geology, Part 1
Historicism and the Rise of Historical Geology, Part 2
Some 'Philosophicall Scribbles' attributed to Robert Hooke
Among the Hooke manuscripts held in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, is an undated document of four pages, entitled (on a separate sheet): XVI Philosophicall Scribbles’. We shall offer here an edition of this hitherto unpublished document; its contents will be discussed and compared with Hooke’s published theories of the soul, mind action and memory in his ‘Lectures of light’ (I); and some consideration will be given to the general adeq…
Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), geologist, romantic aesthete, and historian of geology
The characteristics of inductivist historiography of science, as practised by earlier scientist/historians, and Whig historiography, as practised by earlier political historians, are described, according to the accounts of Agassi and Butterfield. It is suggested that the writings of Geikie on the history of geology allow us to characterize him as a Whig/inductivist historian of science who formulated anachronistic judgements. It is further sugges…
Evolutionary themes in British music historiography
The present paper was stimulated, in the first instance, by my reading of W. D. Allen's well-known volume, Philosophies of ‘Music History (1939),1 the only full-length book in English that examines in detail the intellectual underpinnings of music historiography. Allen’s work is today considered by musicologists to be somewhat dated. Nevertheless, it raised for me an interesting question that this paper seeks to resolve, namely, the nature of the…
Science, Ideology, and World View
The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought
How Did Darwin Arrive at His Theory? The Secondary Literature to 1982
Science and Social Change in Britain and Europe, 1700-1900 . Colin Russell
Grid/Group Analysis for Historians of Science
Some writings of Robert Hooke on procedures for the prosecution of scientific inquiry, including his 'Lectures of Things Requisite to a Ntral History'
ROBERT HOOKE’s ideas on scientific method have been the subject of several previous investigations, Hooke was concerned to utilize and develop Bacon’s suggestions for the prosecution of scientific inquiry, and in his early writings he hinted that he might have a general procedure that would enable him to ‘raise axioms and theories’ by means of some kind of semi-automatic process— his ‘philosophical algebra’. Thus he may have conceived the develop…
Peter J. Bowler, Evolution
Philosophy of Science and Historical Enquiry. John Losee
Social and Historical Studies of Science in the Classroom
Michael Shortland and Andrew Warwick (eds), Teaching the History of Science (Oxford & New York: The British Society for the History of Science & Blackwell, 1989), vii + 281 pp., ?29.50/$49.95, ?9.95/$16.95 pbk. ISBN 0-631-16977-6 (-16978-4 pbk). Robin Millar (ed.), Doing Science: Images of Science in Education (Lewes, Sussex & Philadelphia, PA: The Falmer Press, 1989), v + 216 pp., ?22.00/$49.00, ?9.95/$22.00 pbk. ISBN 1-85000-506-0 (-507-9 pbk)
Picking at/on Pickering
Earth Sciences History . Gerald M. Friedman
On concepts and classifications of musical instruments
Classification is a difficult and contentious activity. One can see this, for example, in the classifications of psychological diseases or human races; and in such cases the practical consequences may be enormous. Or one may simply be concerned to establish a convenient way of organizing objects or forms of knowledge, as in a library classification such as that of the Dewey System. This is not usually contentious, though the System needs to be de…
Honouring a Goodman
How Classification Works contains a selection of papers derived from a conference on 'The Rightness of Categories' held at Northwestern University as far back as 1984, the theme being the implications of Nelson Goodman's work for anthropology. From the papers presented at the conference, the editors have now developed a collection of essays concerned with the somewhat broader theme of the significance of Goodman's work for the social sciences.1 B…
James Hutton
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