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Neumayer, Georg Balthasar von (1826 - 1909)

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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Gibbs, W. J., The Origins of Australian Meteorology , Metarch Papers No. 12, Bureau of Meteorology, 1998. [ Details ]

  • Kremb, Klaus, Georg von Neumayer: Auf zum Südpol, 2001. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

  • Home, R. W., 'Georg von Neumayer and the Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne', in David Walker and Jurgen Tampke (eds), From Berlin to the Burdekin: The German Contribution to the Development of Australian Science, Exploration and the Arts, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1991, pp. 40-53. [ Details ]

  • Home, R.W., 'Emigrants or Scientific Travellers? Ferdinand Mueller and Georg Neumayer between Germany and Australia', in Ellen I. Mitchell (ed.), Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 2000, pp. 11-23. [ Details ]

  • Swan, R. A., 'Neumayer, Georg Balthasar von (1826-1909), scientist, magnetician, hydrographer, oceanographer and meteorologist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 329-331. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050377b.htm) [ Details ]

  • Wiederkehr, K. H., 'Georg Neumayer und die Grundung eines geophysikalisch-nautischen Observatoriums in Melbourne, 1857', in Wilfried Schroder (ed.), Past, Present and Future Trends in Geophysical Research: Selected Papers from the Symposia of the interdivisional Commission on History of IAGA during the IUGG Assembly, held in Vancouver, 1987, Bremen, 1987. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • 'Dr Neumayer's Projekt zur Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung Central-Australiens', Petermanns Georgaphische Mettheilungen, 1868, pp. 442-453. [ Details ]

  • Barnard, F. G. A., 'Journeys of Dr. Neumayer in Victoria 1859-64', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 34, 1918, pp. 185-200. [ Details ]

  • Kenyon, A. S., 'Extracts From the Diary of Dr Neumayer, in His 'The Story of the Mallee'', Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 4, 1914, pp. 64-70. [ Details ]

  • Wiederkehr, K. H., 'Alexander von Humboldt und Georg von Neumayers geophysikalisches Projekt in Australien', Mitteilungen Arbeitskreis Geschichte der Geophysik in der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft, vol. 7, October, 1988, pp. 1-24. [ Details ]

  • Wiederkehr, K. H. and Schroder, W., 'Georg von Neumayers geophysikalisches Projekt in Australien und Alexander von Humboldt', Gesnerus, vol. 46, 1989, pp. 83-115. [ Details ]


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