Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland.
Author: ATTIS, David & MOLLAN, Charles (Editors).
Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 2004 (Volume 1). xvii, 174 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
CONTENTS:-
Authors.
List of Illustrations.
Charles Mollan - Foreword.
David Attis - Editor’s Introduction.
Jim Bennett - Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland.
Dorinda Outram
- Revisiting.
- Heavenly Bodies and Logical Minds.
- Negating the Natural: Or Why Historians Deny Irish Science.
Gordon Herries Davies - Before a Blood-Stained Tapestry: Irish Political Violence and Irish Science.
David Attis - Sir William Petty and the Mathematical Conquest of Ireland.
W. Garrett Scaife - John Phillip Holland: Father of the Modern Submarine.
Sean Lysaght - Eagles in Mayo: A Historical Record.
Greta Jones - Darwinism in Ireland.
Ruth Bayles - Understanding Local Science: The Belfast Natural History Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
ISBN: 0860270475
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