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    In the Shadow of the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse: The Two British Expeditions and the Politics of Invisibility.Ana Simões - 2022 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (4):581-601.
    This paper addresses the legendary total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. Two British teams confirmed the light bending prediction by Albert Einstein: Charles R. Davidson and Andrew C. C. Crommelin in Sobral, Brazil and Arthur S. Eddington and Edwin T. Cottingham on the African island of Príncipe, then part of the Portuguese empire.By jointly analyzing the two astronomical expeditions supported by written and visual sources, I show how, despite extensive scholarship on this famous historical episode and the (...)
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    Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expedition of 1919 and its Predecessors.John Earman & Clark Glymour - unknown
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    An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War.Matthew Stanley - 2003 - Isis 94 (1):57-89.
    The 1919 eclipse expedition’s confirmation of general relativity is often celebrated as a triumph of scientific internationalism. However, British scientific opinion during World War I leaned toward the permanent severance of intellectual ties with Germany. That the expedition came to be remembered as a progressive moment of internationalism was largely the result of the efforts of A. S. Eddington. A devout Quaker, Eddington imported into the scientific community the strategies being used by his coreligionists in the national dialogue: humanize (...)
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    An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War.Matthew Stanley - 2003 - Isis 94 (1):57-89.
    The 1919 eclipse expedition’s confirmation of general relativity is often celebrated as a triumph of scientific internationalism. However, British scientific opinion during World War I leaned toward the permanent severance of intellectual ties with Germany. That the expedition came to be remembered as a progressive moment of internationalism was largely the result of the efforts of A. S. Eddington. A devout Quaker, Eddington imported into the scientific community the strategies being used by his coreligionists in the national dialogue: humanize (...)
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  5. Colonial encounters of first peoples and first anthropologists in British Columbia, Canada: listening to the late 19th-century voices of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.Catherine Carlson & Alice B. Kehoe - 2019 - In Peter Ridgway Schmidt & Alice Beck Kehoe (eds.), Archaeologies of listening. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
     
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    Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia. Ur Excavations. Vol. II. The Royal Cemetery. [REVIEW]Valentin Müller, C. L. Woolley & Valentin Muller - 1935 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 55 (2):204.
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  7. Trust in expert testimony: Eddington's 1919 eclipse expedition and the British response to general relativity.Ben Almassi - 2009 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (1):57-67.
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    Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire. James R. RyanDrawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Laurel Kendall, Barbara Mathe, Thomas Ross Miller. [REVIEW]William H. Goetzmann - 1999 - Isis 90 (2):370-371.
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  9. New Expeditions: Itineraries, Migrations, Excursions.Nicolás Rosa - 2002 - Diogenes 49 (193):12-26.
    Imperialism and its aftermath set off an extraordinary wave of travel, exploration, and migrations around the globe, in which writers, or potential writers, were inevitably caught up. One consequence was that many novels of the last one hundred and fifty years, especially British novels, have had exotic settings.David Lodge, “The Exotic”, The Art of Fiction, pp. 158-9.
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    Vickers, Kakhidze Pichvnari. Results of Excavations conducted by the Joint British–Georgian Pichvnari Expedition. Volume I. Pichvnari 1998–2002. Greeks and Colchians on the East Coast of the Black Sea. Part 1: Text. Pp. 280, b/w & colour pls. Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/Batumi: The Batumi Archaeological Museum, 2004. Cased. No ISBN. [REVIEW]Balbina Bäbler - 2006 - The Classical Review 56 (2):462-464.
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    Vickers (M.), Kakhidze (A.) Pichvnari. Results of Excavations conducted by the Joint British–Georgian Pichvnari Expedition. Volume I. Pichvnari 1998–2002. Greeks and Colchians on the East Coast of the Black Sea. Part 1: Text. Pp. 280, b/w & colour pls. Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/Batumi: The Batumi Archaeological Museum, 2004. Cased. No ISBN. [REVIEW]Balbina Bäbler - 2006 - The Classical Review 56 (02):462-.
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    Magnetic instruments in the Canadian Arctic expeditions of Franklin, Lefroy, and Nares.Trevor H. Levere - 1986 - Annals of Science 43 (1):57-76.
    Magnetic observations were essential for polar navigation, and were carried out systematically on both sea and land-based expeditions to the Canadian Arctic throughout the nineteenth century. John Franklin took a particular interest in magnetic studies and encouraged the Admiralty to adopt Robert Were Fox's dip circle. The establishment of the Toronto magnetic observatory provided a base for John Henry Lefroy's survey of the North West Territories. The Royal Navy's programme of magnetic research, commenced in the aftermath of the Napoleonic (...)
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    Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers.Elsa Mota, Paulo Crawford & Ana SimÕes - 2009 - British Journal for the History of Science 42 (2):245-273.
    Among various case studies addressing the reception of relativity, very few deal with Portugal at either the international or the national level. The national literature on the topic has mainly concentrated on the reactions to relativity of the Portuguese mathematical community. The absence of Portuguese astronomers alongside Eddington during the 1919 expedition to Principe, then a Portuguese island, has been implicitly equated with the astronomical community's lack of interest in the event. In reception studies dealing with general relativity, analysis has (...)
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    Why do the British still remember Scott of the Antarctic?Max Jones - 2012 - ACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano 65 (3):47-58.
    the announcement of the death of the British polar explorer captain robert scott on his return from the south Pole, which he had reached on 17 January 1912, caused a sensation in Britain and around the world. Although he lost the race to the south Pole to a norwegian party led by roald Amundsen, the recent centenary of scott’s last expedition aroused widespread interest not only in Britain but around the world. this paper examines why the British public (...)
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    Americana Iris N. W. Engstrand, Spanish scientists in the New World: the eighteenth century expeditions. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 220. £15.00/$25.00. [REVIEW]Thomas Glick - 1983 - British Journal for the History of Science 16 (3):322-322.
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    J.M.I. Klaver, Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World 1761–1881. London: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-956889-5. £95.00. [REVIEW]Simon Mills - 2011 - British Journal for the History of Science 44 (1):128-130.
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    Roderick Murchison and the structure of Africa: A geological prediction and its consequences for British expansion.Robert A. Stafford - 1988 - Annals of Science 45 (1):1-40.
    Sir Roderick Murchison's Humboldtian belief in a close linkage between the sciences of geology and physical geography finds its best illustration in his prediction of the three-dimensional structure of Africa in 1852 from explorers' reports, fossil discoveries, and a theory of crustal uplift and fracturing elaborated by the Cambridge mathematician William Hopkins. From this remarkably accurate hypothesis and other theories which he had developed concerning the occurrence of coal and gold, Murchison concluded that exploitable deposits of economic minerals which might (...)
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    Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 150 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, Vi.British Academy - 2007 - Oxford University Press UK.
    Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Peter Birks; Lord Dacre of Glanton; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampsire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens, Peter Strawson; Sir William Wade; Alan Williams; Sir Bernard Williams and John Wymer.
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  19. Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 115: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, I.British Academy (ed.) - 2003 - Oxford University Press UK.
    Volume 115 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 20 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy and an essay on James Bryce. Memoirs of Fellows have previously been published in the same annual Proceedings volume as that containing the British Academy's Lectures. The Biographical Memoirs are henceforth to be published in a volume of their own, within the Proceedings sequence.
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  20. Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101: 1998 Lectures and Memoirs.British Academy - 2000 - Oxford University Press UK.
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    Daniela Bleichmar, Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visible Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xii+286. ISBN 978-0-226-05853-5. £33.50. [REVIEW]Efram Sera-Shriar - 2013 - British Journal for the History of Science 46 (3):527-529.
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    J. S. Mill on Oriental Despotism, including its British Variant: Robert Kurfirst.Robert Kurfirst - 1996 - Utilitas 8 (1):73-87.
    European portraits of the great Asian states, China, India, and Persia, remained remarkably constant from the establishment of the Chinese silk trade in the first century B.C. until the religious and mercantile expeditions to the Orient prominent in the late Middle Ages. For more than a millenium, the Eastern empires had been classified by Europeans as stable despotisms – stationary societies governed by custom and tradition and devoid of economic, political, or cultural dynamism. Only during the Enlightenment did the (...)
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    Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier and Christopher J. Ries , Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012. Pp. 476. ISBN 978-87-7124-014-6. £50.00. [REVIEW]Jean-Baptiste Gouyon - 2014 - British Journal for the History of Science 47 (1):188-189.
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    Ferreiro, Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World. New York: Basic Books, 2011. Pp. xix + 353. ISBN 978-0-465-01723-2. $28.00. [REVIEW]Patricia Fara - 2012 - British Journal for the History of Science 45 (4):685-686.
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    A LEX S OOJUNG -K IM P ANG, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions. Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+196. ISBN 0-8047-3926-9. £16.95. [REVIEW]Charlotte Bigg - 2006 - British Journal for the History of Science 39 (1):134-135.
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    Philip W. Clements, Science in an Extreme Environment: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 269. ISBN 978-0-8229-4511-6. $39.95 (paperback). [REVIEW]Jordan Bimm - 2020 - British Journal for the History of Science 53 (1):121-123.
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    From Survey to Ecology: The Role of the British Vegetation Committee, 1904–1913. [REVIEW]Kaat Schulte Fischedick - 2000 - Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2):291 - 314.
    This article focuses on early British vegetation science, in particular on the British Vegetation Committee. In earlier histories of (plant) ecology, the period of the Committee's life, 1904-1913, renowned for its surveys and its maps, was depicted as a brief prelude to British plant ecology. This article traces the course of "survey" and "ecology" within the Committee, demonstrating that survey and ecology were both distinct and intertwined within the Committee. The Committee adhered to two lines of research, (...)
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    British Museum: Catalogue of Printed Books.British Museum & Aristotle - 1883 - Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited ..
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  29. ships were the Empress, Engadine, Riviera, Ark &yak Ben-My-Chree.British Navy Aircraft Carriers - unknown - Hermes 598 (10,950):40-000.
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    An Aratvs Fragment in the British Museum.H. I. Bell - 1907 - Classical Quarterly 1 (01):1-.
    With B. M. Pap. 273 , which consists of a number of fragments from a papyrus book containing an unknown epic on the subject of Dionysus and his Indian expedition, is bound up a small fragment, evidently by a different hand. This I have recently identified as from the Phaenomena of Aratus; and I therefore publish it here. Apparently no papyrus fragment of this poem has yet been discovered; there is, however, at Berlin a portion of a commentary on Aratus, (...)
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    The law and ethics of male circumcision: guidance for doctors.British Medical Association - 2004 - Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (3):259-263.
    1. Aim of the guidelines2. Principles of good practice3. Circumcision for medical purposes4. Non-therapeutic circumcision 4.1. The law 4.1.1. Summary: the law 4.2. Consent and refusal 4.2.1. Children’s own consent 4.2.2. Parents’ consent 4.2.3. Summary: consent and refusal 4.3. Best interests 4.3.1. Summary: best interests 4.4. Health issues 4.5. Standards 4.6. Facilities 4.7. Charging patients 4.8. Conscientious objection5. Useful addresses.
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    Deontology, social 15.British Moralists - 2009 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice 2 (9):331.
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    Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: a joint statement from the British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the Royal College of Nursing.British Medical Association - 2001 - Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (5):310.
    Summary Principles Timely support for patients and people close to them, and effective, sensitive communication are essential. Decisions must be based on the individual patient's circumstances and reviewed regularly. Sensitive advance discussion should always be encouraged, but not forced. Information about CPR and the chances of a successful outcome needs to be realistic. Practical matters Information about CPR policies should be displayed for patients and staff. Leaflets should be available for patients and people close to them explaining about CPR, how (...)
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  34. Some facts.British Guiana, Cocos Islands & United Arab - 1964 - The Eugenics Review 55:53.
     
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  35. The impact of idealism in north America.British Idealism In Southern - 2010 - In William Sweet (ed.), Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism. Continuum. pp. 20.
     
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  36. Andrea peghinelli.Point in British Contemporary Drama - 2012 - Journal for Communication and Culture 2 (1):20-30.
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  37. Nature, Every Last Drop, is Good.Alan Holland & British Association of Nature Conservationists - 1996 - Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University.
     
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  38. In Praise of Backyards Towards a Phenomenology of Place / by Jane M. Howarth.Jane Howarth & British Association of Nature Conservationists - 1996 - Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University.
     
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  39. Neither Use nor Ornament a Conservationists' Guide to Care.Jane Howarth & British Association of Nature Conservationists - 1996 - Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University.
     
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    Advance Statements about Medical Treatment.Derek British Medical Association & Morgan - 1995 - BMJ Books.
    This code of practice for health professionals was prepared by a multi-professional group and reflects good clinical practice in encouraging dialogue about individuals' wishes concerning their future treatment. It has a broad practical approach, considers a range of advance statements, advises of dangers and benefits of making treatment decisions in advance and combines annotated code of practice with a quick pull out guide for easy reference.
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    Lists of Reports and Maps of the United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian.A. J. Ayer & British Academy - 1881 - London: Oxford University Press.
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  42. Philosophy and Literature.Iris Murdoch & British Broadcasting Corporation - 1977 - Bbc-Tv.
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  43. The Ideas of Chomsky Bryan Magee Talked to Noam Chomsky.Noam Chomsky & British Broadcasting Corporation - 1977 - British Broadcasting Corporation.
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    Marx and Locke on Land and Labour.Gerald Allan Cohen & British Academy - 1986 - Oxford University Press.
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  45. Kierkegaard's Two Ways.Patrick L. Gardiner & British Academy - 1970 - Oxford University Press.
     
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  46. Philosophy, the Social Context.Ernest Gellner & British Broadcasting Corporation - 1977 - Films for the Humanities & Sciences Distributed by Bbc Worldwide America's. Edited by Bryan Magee.
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  47. Marxist Philosophy.Charles Taylor & British Broadcasting Corporation - 1977 - Bbc-Tv. Edited by Bryan Magee.
     
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    Moral Principles and Inductive Policies.R. B. Braithwaite & British Academy - 1952
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    1w6m1@ 9amma1% M.Keith Horsefield & British Monetary - 2010 - In S. J. Savonius-Wroth Paul Schuurman & Jonathen Walmsley (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Locke. Continuum. pp. 71--275.
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  50. Studies in Philosophy British Academy Lectures, by G.F. Stout [and Others]. --.J. N. Findlay, George Frederick Stout & British Academy - 1966 - Oxford University Press.
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