Prometheus’s Fire: a History of Scientific and Technological Education in Ireland

Norman McMillan (Tyndall Publications, £24 pb, £42 hb) ISBN 0952597403, pb/hb ISBN? In his first encounter with Trinity College, Dublin, in 1971 the author was shown around the Physics Department, and in passing his attention was drawn to a heap of old notebooks, which he was told belonged to George Francis Fitzgerald, but it seemed ... Read more

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