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Jevons, William Stanley (1835 - 1882)

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Meteorologist and Assayer

Born: 1835 England. Died: August 1882.

William Stanley Jevons was assayer at the new Sydney Mint 1854-59 then returned to England. While in Australia he made systematic observations in meteorology, botany, geology, and of social phenomena, and in 1857 became interested in the new art of wet-plate photography.

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Maas, Harro, 'William Stanley Jevons, 1835-82', in The Thoemmes Encyclopedia of the History of Ideas, Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, http://www.thoemmes.com/404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/jevons.htm. [ Details ]

McKern, H. H. G., Early Chemists of Sydney, 2006, http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/McKern.htm. [ Details ]

Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', 2000, http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/pubs/1998/AMM47.htm. [ Details ]

See Also

Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000062. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 10 September 2004

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