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William Dawes and His Ride with Paul Revere
Author | : Henry Ware Holland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044077699551 |
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William Dawes
Author | : Richard de Grijs,Andrew Jacob |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783031387746 |
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This book describes William Dawes’ life and professional achievements. William Dawes was a British Marine serving as the official astronomer on board the First Fleet making the 1787–1788 voyage from Britain to the new colony of New South Wales. Between 1788 and 1791, Dawes established not one but two observatories within a kilometre of Sydney’s present-day city centre, a full seven decades before the construction of Sydney’s historical Observatory at Dawes’ Point, today a stone’s throw from the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In this comprehensive biography, the authors discuss William Dawes’ life and his considerable impact—as astronomer, engineer, surveyor, ordnance officer and intellectual centre point—on the early colony in New South Wales (in essence, his impact on the earliest history of Sydney as a settlement) and, subsequently, on the British colonies of Sierra Leone on the West African coast and Antigua in the West Indies. Dawes’ life and professional achievements are closely linked to the earliest history of Sydney as a British settlement. He is often considered a man of high morals, and as such his interactions with the local populations in New South Wales, Sierra Leone and Antigua were mostly deemed respectful and above reproach. He is seen a truly enlightened individual, far ahead of his time. The authors of this book have a significant track record of successful and engaging communication of complex concepts in physics and astronomy with experts and non-experts alike. This biography touches on numerous aspects related to 18th century maritime navigation (“sailing on the stars”), societal relationships, the exploration of newly discovered lands, as well as the early history of Sydney and New South Wales, and the colonial histories of Sierra Leone and the West Indies. As such, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from scholars in the history of science and maritime navigation, to history enthusiasts ranging from local historians on Australia’s eastern seaboard to members of the public with a keen interest in British colonial history.
The whole works of sir William Dawes ed by J Wilford
Author | : sir William Dawes (3rd bart, abp. of York.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1733 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590289244 |
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The whole works of sir William Dawes ed by J Wilford
Author | : sir William Dawes (3rd bart, abp. of York.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1732 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555050429 |
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Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock Connecticut
Author | : Edward Augustus Bowen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : WISC:89062854021 |
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Of its founders patrons benefactors and masters
Author | : Harry Bristow Wilson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1814 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:$C24959 |
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26 Views of the Starburst World
Author | : Ross Gibson |
Publsiher | : UWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : 1742582974 |
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Ross Gibson continues his speculative brilliance with this work on the astronomer and colonist William Dawes, using his notebooks as source material. It is an intellectual adventure around the tensions and pleasures of language and meaning, particularly Dawes' encounters under the southern stars, sharing ideas with a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. These were the years when Britain seized the Eora country, leading eventually to the establishment of the modern nation of Australia. Fragmentary, poetic and intriguing, Gibson describes, ponders and interprets the pages of Dawes' notebooks, which are reproduced throughout.