Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art

1980 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 663
Author(s):  
David Grimsted ◽  
Charles Coleman Sellers
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Charles Willson Peale ◽  
Science And Art

Natural Science and Brazilian Nationality: Os sertões by Euclides da Cunha

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Carlos Barreto de Santana
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Os Sertoes ◽  
Great Culture ◽  
Brazilian Culture ◽  
Euclides Da Cunha

Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), by the engineer Euclides da Cunha, is one of the most important books in Brazilian literature, with more than 50 local editions and translations in at least nine languages. Published in 1902 after four years of writing, it is a book about nationality in Brazil that sparked a debate regarding the subject of national consciousness and the connection between a nation's physical landscape, its people, and its culture. The book draws from a wide spectrum of knowledge that synthesizes science and art as the pinnacle of human thought. Cunha was a man of great culture and learning and in this work his professional activities and scientific writings merge to celebrate Brazilian culture in different realms of knowledge. The author worked as an engineer and had connections with the scientific community and the world of natural science. His explicit references to naturalists, travelers, geologists, and botanists reflect the historical moment of scientific knowledge in Brazil in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and no less than that, Cunha's personal connections with the local scientific community.

Frederick Daniel Chattaway, 1860 - 1944

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 713-716
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Private School ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Science School

F. D. Chattaway was born at Foleshill in Warwickshire on 9 November 1860, being the eldest of five children of Daniel Clarke Chattaway and Eliza Anne Adcock. He died at Torquay on 27 January 1944 in his eighty-fourth year. His father was a ribbon and trimming manufacturer in Coventry but this trade collapsed and with it the family fortune, following the 1870 treaty with France. In consequence Chattaway’s education was achieved almost entirely by scholarships. His taste for science might derive from his grandfather, but his liking for and knowledge of poetry and literature almost certainly came from his mother who started a small private school in Birmingham when the family income failed. Chattaway received his early education privately from a nonconformist minister, the Rev. J. S. Withers. His training in chemistry began at Mason College under Sir William Tilden. A science and art scholarship enabled him to attend the School of Mines in London and he then passed preliminary examinations at Glasgow with a view to studying medicine. Having no stomach for dissection, however, he turned to chemistry as a career and proceeded to University College, Aberystwyth. Two years later he gained a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, where A. G. Vernon Harcourtwas tutor, and obtained a first class in the Natural Science School at Oxford in 1891: a first at London had been gained the previous year. He followed the then general practice of going to Germany and elected to work with Baeyar and Bamberger at Munich.

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