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John William Dawson : faith, hope, and science / Susan Sheets-Pyenson.
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Sheets-Pyenson, Susan, 1949-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996.
Description
274 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Canada Commons: Books & Documents
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QE22.D3 S54 1996
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Geologists
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Canada
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Biography
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Educators
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Canada
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Biography
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Geology
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Science
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College presidents
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Québec (Province)
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Montréal
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Biography
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Scientists
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Canada
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McGill University
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Presidents
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Dawson, John William Sir 1820-1899
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Biographies
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Summary note
Drawing on Dawson's correspondence and personal papers, Susan Sheets-Pyenson paints an intimate portrait of a pivotal figure in Canada's scientific heritage and a proper Victorian gentleman whose pious Presbyterianism, missionary zeal, and unwavering belief in the light of knowledge drove him on a quest to conquer ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry.
Dawson was born and raised in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the many sandstone and coal formations provided fertile ground for his first scientific explorations and eventually brought him into contact with the leading geological minds of his day, Charles Lyell and William Logan, and culminated in the publication of Acadian Geology. He became principal of McGill University in 1855 and over the next forty years worked unceasingly to transform McGill from a "tiny, poverty-stricken provincial school" into a scientific institution of the highest rank. He was the only person to hold the presidency of both the American and British associations for the advancement of science. Dawson's energetic promotion of scientific institutions in Canada remains one of his most enduring legacies, particularly his role in creating the Royal Society of Canada
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-267) and index.
ISBN
077351368X ((acid-free paper))
9780773513686 ((acid-free paper))
LCCN
97126059
OCLC
34591936
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John William Dawson [electronic resource] : faith, hope, and science / Susan Sheets-Pyenson.
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John William Dawson : faith, hope, and science / Susan Sheets-Pyenson.
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