Science and Controversy
A biography of Sir Norman Lockyer
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Epilogue
After Lockyer’s death, Jim finally attained the position of director of the Hill Observatory, and shortly afterwards, perhaps in celebration, he married. The observatory itself was soon renamed The Norman Lock...
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The Man of Letters
Literary ambition was a common prerogative of Civil Servants when Lockyer joined the War Office. It was commonly said at the time that all the leading writers of the period were recruited either from the Bar o...
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The Devonshire Commission
The late 1860s were a period of great heart searching for those interested in the development of British science and technology. At the beginning of the fifties it had seemed to the casual gaze that Britain ha...
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What is an Atom?
Lockyer’s early research was controversial only in the sense that it was pioneering work in a new area of science. His ideas might be queried, but his investigations were based on a set of fundamental concepts...
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Family and Friends
Lockyer’s first wife was a fecund bearer of children; during the first fifteen years of their marriage, nine children were born. The first child, called Joseph Norman like his father, died young; so the second...
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The Final Push
The Presidency of the British Association was not the only major event of Lockyer’s life in 1903. A few months before the British Association meeting, he married Thomazine Mary Brodhurst, fifty at the time and...
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Postscript
In the years since this book was first published, research has marched inexorably onwards. The spread of Lockyer’s interests was broad, and all the topics that concerned him have received attention, though som...
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The Militant Civil Servant
In May, 1859, The Times published a sonorous call to arms.
‘Storm, Storm, Riflemen form!
Ready, be ready against the storm!
Riflemen, Riflemen, Riflemen form!’
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The Man of Science
The 1860s formed a crucial period in the development of astronomy. Since the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, in which astronomy had played a major role, astronomers had been trying to build u...
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South Kensington and Meteorology
Most British universities and colleges have had variegated histories, but the teaching institutions at South Kensington would probably take any prize for complexity of development within a short span of time. ...
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The Philosopher’s Stone
The objects that interest astronomers are usually there to be studied as, and when, desired (presuming, of course, that the weather does not interfere, and that the time and place are right). Occasionally, how...
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Education and National Progress
The Devonshire Commission recommendations had had disappointingly little immediate practical effect. The demands for scientific instruction there-fore continued unabated. During the decade after the Commission...
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A New Orientation
Early in 1890, Lockyer went with his friend Anderson of the Orient Line on a trip to Greece and Turkey. Like any good Victorian tourist, he tramped round the monuments and buildings; but he took with him his s...
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Science and its discontents
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The use of an algorithmic approach for the assessment of research quality
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of quantitative parameters for assessing the quality of research carried out at universities. In the UK, university departments are now subject to regular i...
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Free thinking
Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa.
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Little scientometrics, big scientometrics ... and beyond
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Citations and departmental research ratings
A recent extensive review of research in British universities has produced a research rating for each university department based primarily on peer review of the department's publications. In this preliminary ...
