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Science and the public good: George Biddell Airy (1801-92) and the concept of a scientific civil servant (1988)

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Authors & Contributors
Belteki, Daniel
Smith, Robert William
Ishibashi, Yuto
Bulstrode, Jenny
Gillin, Edward J.
Stanley, Matthew
Concepts
Astronomy
Research institutes; research stations
Science and society
Labor and laborers
Science and government
Electricity; magnetism
Time Periods
19th century
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
United States
Institutions
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Antiquarian Horological Society
British Museum
Cambridge University
Greenwich Observatory
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