The search for knowledge and understanding / Maxwell Bennett
- Bib ID:
- 8078101
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bennett, M. R. (Maxwell Richard), author
- Description:
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- University Of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2019]
- © 2019
- xxii, 333 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, plates ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781742104492 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"For nearly a millennium, universities have searched for knowledge, understanding and truth. Max Bennett evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars in the University of Sydney’s history and shows how this university’s search has advanced society in manifold ways."--On back cover.
- Full contents:
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- History: 1. Ancient Greek red-figure pottery: Arthur Dale Trendall
- 2. Medieval Icelandic sagas and poetry: Margaret Clunies Ross
- 3. Early Australian colonies and Federation: John Manning Ward. Jurisprudence: 4. Protecting the common law from autocracy: Alice Erh-Soon Tay
- 5. Ensuring legal decisions reflect society’s mores: Julius Stone. Economics: 6. Identifying instabilities in financial institutions: Warren Pat Hogan. Philosophy: 7. Truth, time and causality: Huw Price
- 8. Brain and mind: David Armstrong
- 9. Foundations of modern science: Stephen Gaukroger. Physics, engineering and astronomy: 10. Star magnitudes and the invention of the stellar interferometer: Robert Hanbury Brown
- 11. Radio signals from stars and the invention of the Mills Cross telescope: Bernard Mills
- 12. Radio signals from sunspots and the invention of the swept-lobe interferometer: Ruby Payne-Scot. Chemistry and geology: 13. Photosynthesis and the quantum mechanics of electron transfer: Noel S. Hush
- 14. Discovery of land masses in Antarctica and Precambrian fossils: Tannatt William Edgeworth David. Biology, epidemiology and mathematics: 15. Distribution and abundance of species: Louis Charles Birch
- 16. Biodiversity, the spread of diseases and mathematical predictions: Robert May
- 17. Malignant melanoma, rubella hearing loss and mathematical correlations: Henry Oliver Lancaster. Neuroscience, neurology and respiratory medicine: 18. Seeing the world in three dimensions depends on identified neural mechanisms: Peter Bishop
- 19. Delaying nerve degeneration, inherited diseases and multiple sclerosis: James McLeod
- 20. Asthma risk factors identified as allergens and genetic predispositions: Ann Janet Woolcock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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