Scientist of the Empire
Subtitle: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780521528672
Subjects: Biography: general; Geology & the lithosphere; History of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Murchison, Roderick Impey, --Sir, --1792-1871; Murchison, Roderick Impey,--Sir,--1792-1871; Science / History; Technology / General
First sentence: Roderick Murchison's heritage rendered him as much a child of empire as a son of Scotland.