Voyagers
James Paradis, 18 June 1981
Sir Joseph Banks
by Charles Lyte.
David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980,0 7153 7884 8 Show More
by Charles Lyte.
David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980,
The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870
by Lynn Barber.
Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980,9780224014489 Show More
by Lynn Barber.
Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980,
A Vision of Eden
by Marianne North.
Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980,0 906671 18 3 Show More
by Marianne North.
Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980,
“... of the professional scientist. In his Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830), Charles Babbage dismissed the amateur tradition of science as wholly inadequate to the serious advancement of scientific knowledge. As young men now applied themselves to the study of law, he argued, future scientists must devote themselves to the mastery of ... ”
