| 书目名称 | William Dawes | | 副标题 | Scientist, Governor, | | 编辑 | Richard de Grijs,Andrew Jacob | | 视频video | | | 概述 | William Dawes and his place as ‘jack of all trades’ in the early colony of New South Wales.The outstanding scientific and engineering feats in Sydney’s history achieved under difficult circumstances.P | | 丛书名称 | Springer Biographies | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 Ant | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | William Dawes biography; William Dawes Sydney; Sydney Harbour Bridge Dawes; astronomy in New South Wale | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38774-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-38776-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-38774-6Series ISSN 2365-0613 Series E-ISSN 2365-0621 | | issn_series | 2365-0613 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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