Dionysius Lardner
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Irish science writer
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Dionysius Lardner's Degrees
- Bachelors Mathematics Trinity College Dublin
- Masters Mathematics Trinity College Dublin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia. Early life in Dublin He was born in Dublin on 3 April 1793 the son of William Lardner and his wife; his father was a solicitor in Dublin, who wished his son to follow the same calling. After some years of uncongenial desk work, Lardner entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1812. He obtained a B.A. in 1817 and an M.A. in 1819, winning many prizes.
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- A treatise on the geography and classification of animals. By William Swainson. (24)
- The museum of science and art (4)
- The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated : with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain maxims for railway speculators (3)
- A discourse on the advantages of natural philosophy and astronomy, as a part of a general and professional education : being an introductory lecture delivered in the University of London, on the 28th October, 1828 (3)
- Steam communication with India by the Red Sea : advocated in a letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne (2)
- Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (1851) (2)
- The microscope : [excerpts] from The museum of science and art / by Dionysius Lardner. (1)
- Animal physiology for schools (1)
- Animals in menageries / by William Swainson. (1)
- Animal physics, or, The body and its functions familiary explained (0)
- The bee and white ants, their manners and habits : with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence : from "The museum of science and art" ... / by Dionysius Lardner ... (0)
- Reviews: The Microscope (1856) (0)
- Lives of eminent British statesmen (0)
- The museum of science and art Edited by Dionysius Lardner (0)
- A Rudimentary Treatise On the Steam Engine: For the Use of Beginners (0)
- On certain properties of vapour (0)
- Handbook of animal physics (0)
- On certain parts of the theory of railways ; with an investigation of the formulæ necessary for the determination of the resistances to the motion of carriages upon them, and of the power necessary to work them (0)
- History Of The Germanic Empire - Vol.1 (0)
- Steam Communication With India (0)
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