The Royal Society of Tasmania https://www.old.rst.org.au The advancement of knowledge Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:38:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.old.rst.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-favicon_5-32x32.png The Royal Society of Tasmania https://www.old.rst.org.au 32 32 Australian Mineral Discoverers: 1950-2010 Reprinted 2021 https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/australian-mineral-discoverers-1950-2010/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:07:51 +0000 https://www.old.rst.org.au/?post_type=product&p=8620 Australian Mineral Discoverers: 1950-2010 published 1st December 2020, reprinted 2021. Editors: John Hill, Tony Hope, Ross Large, David Royle This book features the biographies of 65 Australian mineral explorers and educators. Their stories show that the discovery of buried minerals is an extremely complex science, requiring knowledge, innovation, disciplined application of geological principles, teamwork, persistence and luck. There is a limit of two (2) copies per online order. To order more than two copies, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au For overseas orders, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au    ]]> Mineral discoveries in the 1950 to 2010 period have been the backbone of wealth creation for all Australians and helped to maintain Australia’s economic position as the “Lucky Country”. However, discovery of buried minerals is an extremely complex science that requires knowledge, innovation, disciplined application of geological principles, teamwork, persistence and an ounce of luck.

In this book you will read 65 exciting and sometimes unbelievable stories of the life and achievements of a cross section of Australian mineral explorers and educators who have advanced the science of discovery and contributed to the wealth of Australia for all Australians. Without these mineral discoveries, most in remote and inhospitable parts of Australia, many of us would not enjoy the high standards of living achieved in this country.

The stories told in these pages include the discovery of 150 mineral deposits, from the very largest (Olympic Dam of over 6 billion tonnes of copper, gold and uranium ore) to the smallest (the gold rich Juno deposit in Tennant Creek). Collectively these mineral discoveries amount to many hundreds of billions of in-ground value, that have supported many mines, towns and communities in outback Australia for 50 years and beyond.

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]]> Poles Apart: Fascination, Fame and Folly https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/poles-apart-fascination-fame-and-folly/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:21:56 +0000 https://www.old.rst.org.au/?post_type=product&p=4626 Poles Apart: Fascination, fame and folly published November 2018 Both hard and soft cover versions will be available. There is a limit of two (2) copies per online order. To order more than two copies, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au For overseas orders, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au    ]]> The last two frontiers on Earth, the Antarctic and the Arctic, are the stuff of heroes, heartache, courage, mystery, misery, endurance and loss. All these and more are captured in the pages of Poles Apart: Fascination, Fame and Folly. This wonderful book lays out, in a series of snapshots, mankind’s incredible persistent battle in firstly taming and secondly understanding our amazing icy wilderness.  

Poles Apart: Fascination, Fame and Folly was published in early November 2018 as part of The Royal Society of Tasmanian’s 175th anniversary celebration.

Both hard and soft cover versions are available.

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]]> Mapping Van Diemen’s Land and the Great Beyond https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/mapping-van-diemens-land-and-the-great-beyond/ Wed, 09 May 2018 02:20:40 +0000 https://www.old.rst.org.au/?post_type=product&p=3750 Mapping Van Diemen’s Land and the Great Beyond published July 2018. Available in soft and hard cover versions. There is a limit of two (2) copies per online order. To order more than two copies, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au For overseas orders, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au    ]]> Cartography through time is explored in this lavishly-illustrated (over 100 high- quality pictures), 138 pp book which explores The Royal Society of Tasmania’s fascinating Map Collection and also includes maps from volumes found in the Society’s Rare Book Collection.

Contributors: Foreword by Matt King; Introduction by Michael Giudici; 1. Charting the west: a wild and unforgiving coast / Peter Marmion and Tony Fenton; 2. Footprints of discovery and settlement: southern Van Diemen’s Land / John VanderNiet; 3. East by northwest: from convicts to tourism / James Parker; 4. An island apart: varied visions / Peter Mercer; 5. A continent revealed / Aidan Davison and Andrew Harwood; 6. Towards the poles: deep souths and deep norths / John Williamson; 7. A world in parts: from mapmaking to empires / John Williamson; 8. A glorious globe: lines and projections, facts and fictions / Michael Giudici; 9. The sharpened view: from farther out and closer in / Matt King; Bibliography; Index.

Mapping Van Diemen’s Land and the Great Beyond, published July 2018.

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]]> The Library at the end of the World https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/the-library-at-the-end-of-the-world/ https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/the-library-at-the-end-of-the-world/#respond Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:39:19 +0000 https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/the-library-at-the-end-of-the-world/ Science and Art come together in this lavishly-illustrated (over 200 high-quality pictures), 240 pp book which explores the natural history art to be found in The Royal Society of Tasmania’s Rare Book Collection. The brief of the numerous scientific authors was to view these amazing early volumes and their exquisite illustrations and to consider how important they were to the understanding of their particular group of organisms in early times, and what influence they have had on the science today. The art authors were asked to bring to life the incredible men and women who produced the extraordinary art work that you will find reproduced in this volume. So often their talent and identity is overlooked, yet without them, we would have nothing but verbal description that conveys nothing of the real wonder of the organisms. The Library at the End of the World: Natural Science and its Illustrators was published in late October 2014.  The 1000 hardcover copies were numbered and signed by the editors. There is a limit of two (2) copies per online order. To order more than two copies, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au For overseas orders, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au    ]]> Science and Art come together in this lavishly-illustrated (over 200 high- quality pictures), 240 pp book which explores the natural history art to be found in The Royal Society of Tasmania’s Rare Book Collection.

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]]> https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/the-library-at-the-end-of-the-world/feed/ 0 Charles Darwin in Hobart Town https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/charles-darwin-in-hobart-town/ https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/charles-darwin-in-hobart-town/#respond Thu, 16 May 2013 07:05:07 +0000 http://rst.hobartwebsitedesign.com.au/?post_type=product&p=59 Click here to read a full review by experienced geologist John Hill. There is a limit of two (2) copies per online order. To order more than two copies, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au For overseas orders, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au  ]]> Click here to read a full review by experienced geologist John Hill. There is a limit of two (2) copies per online order. To order more than two copies, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au For overseas orders, please contact the Society directly to calculate postage and place the order: admin@rst.org.au  ]]> https://www.old.rst.org.au/product/charles-darwin-in-hobart-town/feed/ 0