Author: Great Britain. Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of Lights, Buoys and Beacons
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Author: Roland Jackson
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990059
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief scientific adviser who reports directly to the prime minister. But at the end of the eighteenth century, when Roland Jackson’s account begins, things were very different. With this book, Jackson turns his attention to the men of science of the day—who derived their knowledge of the natural world from experience, observation, and experiment—focusing on the essential role they played in proffering scientific advice to the state, and the impact of that advice on public policy. At a time that witnessed huge scientific advances and vast industrial development, and as the British state sought to respond to societal, economic, and environmental challenges, practitioners of science, engineering, and medicine were drawn into close involvement with politicians. Jackson explores the contributions of these emerging experts, the motivations behind their involvement, the forces that shaped this new system of advice, and the legacy it left behind. His book provides the first detailed analysis of the provision of scientific, engineering, and medical advice to the nineteenth-century British government, parliament, the civil service, and the military.

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Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Author: Various
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108054528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 727

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The 1861 Nautical Magazine includes reports on China and Japan, geology, eclipses and a tsunami, and the French navy.

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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Languages : en
Pages : 734

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