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- Title
- Regardfully Yours Ferd. von Mueller
- In
- Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
- Imprint
- Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 35-38
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- https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/maroske.htm
- Subject
- History of Australian Science - General
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- Abstract
In 1988 an international project was commenced under the directorship of Professor R. W. Home of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne to publish a life and letters of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. The biography planned by this project is a scientific biography, that is, a biography that will put Mueller in the context of his scientific work and that will put that work in the context of the history of each of its scientific disciplines. When the Mueller project team completes that biography it will be the first scientific biography of Mueller  which is somewhat remarkable considering he was Australia's greatest nineteenthÂcentury scientist.
That is not to say that attempts at evaluating Mueller's science have not been made in the past, or that biographies of his life have not already been written. Indeed the aims and results of the successful attempts, and the reasons for the failure of the others, provide both challenges and warnings to the Mueller project.
- Source
- Carlson 1996
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