Baudin's Books

Fornasiero, Jean; West-Sooby, John

doi:10.3828/ajfs.39.2.215

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“…The best attested example is that of the two libraries -one generally for the scientific personnel, the other the private property of the commander -on Nicolas Baudin's Géographe at the very beginning of the nineteenth century (Fornasiero & West-Sooby 2002). If one remembers the dimensions of vessels of the period, Baudin's staggering reference collection of huge folio and quarto sets looks like selfindulgence on a grand scale.…”

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German science in nineteenth-century Australian libraries

Kirsop¹

2015

Proc. R. Soc. Vic.

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Between Bligh's disdain for Robert Townson's books at the beginning of the century and C.W. Holgate's 1886 commentary on the collections of the Melbourne Public Library, there is evidence of deficiencies in Australian holdings of materials derived from the German states and from the Austrian empire. Consideration of private collections, of the roles played by individuals in developing research institutes, learned societies and community libraries and ultimately of the efforts made by university leaders to equip and enhance a culture of scientific investigation leads to the conclusion that the German or Prussian model was beginning to dominate by the turn of the twentieth century.

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German science in nineteenth-century Australian libraries

Kirsop¹

2015

Proc. R. Soc. Vic.

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“…(bory 1804: 162-163) Comments such as these were deliberately intended to undermine baudin's intellectual authority over the expedition. bory's criticism of the library on board the ships -"la bibliothèque des corvettes était une dérision" (bory 1804: 8-9) -is to be read in the same vein (Fornasiero & west-sooby 2002). in order to discredit baudin, it was insufficient to charge him with tyrannical behaviour or poor seamanship; to dismiss him as responsible for the lack of scientific resources on board was to deliver the definitive blow to his reputation as a scientific voyager.…”

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