Background
Gascoigne, John was born on January 20, 1951 in Liverpool, England. Son of Robert Mortimer and Elizabeth Mary (Meehan) Gascoigne. arrived in Australia, 1951.
(This book traces the relationship between Anglicanism and...)
This book traces the relationship between Anglicanism and science in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge.
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This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the institutional setting of Newton's work, the religious and political circumstances that favoured its dissemination, and the way in which it was dealt with in the curriculum. But the author also seeks to place the problem of the role of science in the early modern university in a larger, European context. To do so, he includes a close prosopographical analysis of the scientific community from the mid-15th TO the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment.
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This book surveys some of the key intellectual influences in the formation of Australian society by emphasizing the impact of the Enlightenment, with its commitment to rational inquiry and progress. The first part analyzes the political and religious background of the period from the First Fleet (1788) to the mid-nineteenth century. The second demonstrates the pervasiveness of ideas of improvement across a range of human endeavors, from agriculture to education, penal discipline and race relations. Throughout, the book highlights the extent to which developments in Australia can be compared with those in Britain and the U.S.
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(This book surveys some of the key intellectual influences...)
This book surveys some of the key intellectual influences in the formation of Australian society by emphasising the impact of the Enlightenment with its commitment to rational enquiry and progress - attitudes which owed much to the successes of the Scientific Revolution. The first part of the book analyses the political and religious background of the period from the First Fleet (1788) to the mid nineteenth century. The second demonstrates the pervasiveness of ideas of improvement - a form of the idea of progress - originally derived from agriculture, but which were to shape attitudes to human nature in fields as diverse as education, penal discipline and race relations. Throughout, the book highlights the extent to which developments in Australia can be compared and contrasted with those in Britain and in the USA.
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Joseph Banks's name is attached to various plant species around the world; he was President of the Royal Society, a Privy Councillor and adviser to the English government on a range of scientific and imperial issues. He was a driving force in the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay. Yet there are few monuments to him, and while he has been the subject of a number of biographies, these have been focused on his personal career rather than his relations to some of the movements of the period. This book places the work of Joseph Banks in the context of the Enlightenment. Banks's relation to major scientific and cultural currents in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British society is explored through a number of thematic chapters. These deal with the cultural ideal of the 'virtuoso' and the pursuit of natural history and anthropology, the practice of 'improvement' and the forces which contributed to the waning of the Enlightenment in England.
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This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally. It also seeks to provide a social context for the dissemination of such ideas by indicating how the political and ecclesiastical consequences of such events as the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution helped either to facilitate or to impede that linkage between Anglicanism and science which is sometimes referred to as 'the holy alliance'. In summary, the book argues that in the period 1660-88 there was little political or ecclesiastical encouragement for such an alliance while the period 1688-1760 was, by contrast, its heyday.
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Gascoigne, John was born on January 20, 1951 in Liverpool, England. Son of Robert Mortimer and Elizabeth Mary (Meehan) Gascoigne. arrived in Australia, 1951.
Bachelor with honors, Sydney (Australia) University, 1972. Master of Arts with distinction, Princeton University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1981.
Lecturer St. Paul's Teachers' College, Rabaul, Papua, New Guinea, 1973. Lecturer University Papua, 1977-1978. Tutor, lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, professor University New South Wales, Sydney, since 1980.
(This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English...)
(This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English...)
(This book surveys some of the key intellectual influences...)
(Joseph Banks's name is attached to various plant species ...)
(This book surveys some of the key intellectual influences...)
(This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of sci...)
(This book traces the relationship between Anglicanism and...)
Married Kathleen May Bock. Children: Robert, Catherine.