Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England, Roy MacLeod, <i>Aldershot, Hampshire, Variorum, 1996, xiv + 325 pp., £ 51.50, ISBN 0-86078-535-1</i>

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

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Publication date (Print): March 1999

Volume: 17

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Pages: 105-108

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See J. R. Brown (ed.), Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston, 1984.
This particularly interested me. When I was 13 I spent some time on King Island, Bass Strait, collecting relics from some of the numerous ships whose captains had mistaken the lighthouse at Cape Wickham at the northern tip of the island for that at Cape Otway on the southern coast of Victoria. See Anon., ‘Echoes of the Past’: The Story of Shipping Disasters on King Island, Currie, King Island, News Office, ca. 1959.
D. R. Oldroyd, The Arch of Knowledge: An Introduction to the History of the Philosophy and Methodology of Science, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington, N.S.W., 1986.
T. H. Huxley, ‘On the educational value of the natural history sciences’, in T. H. Huxley (ed.), Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, MacMillan, London, 1871, p. 139.

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[1] See J. R. Brown (ed.), Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston, 1984.

[2] This particularly interested me. When I was 13 I spent some time on King Island, Bass Strait, collecting relics from some of the numerous ships whose captains had mistaken the lighthouse at Cape Wickham at the northern tip of the island for that at Cape Otway on the southern coast of Victoria. See Anon., ‘Echoes of the Past’: The Story of Shipping Disasters on King Island, Currie, King Island, News Office, ca. 1959.

[3] D. R. Oldroyd, The Arch of Knowledge: An Introduction to the History of the Philosophy and Methodology of Science, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington, N.S.W., 1986.

[4] T. H. Huxley, ‘On the educational value of the natural history sciences’, in T. H. Huxley (ed.), Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, MacMillan, London, 1871, p. 139.