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Amateur-professional Co-operation in Astronomy Education: a Nineteenth Century Australian Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Wayne Orchiston
Wayne Orchiston*
Affiliation:
Gisborne Museum and Arts Centre, PO Box 716 Gisborne, New Zealand
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Abstract

During the second half of the nineteenth century Australian amateur and professional astronomers worked together in actively promoting astronomy among the general public. This collaboration was a product of the cordial amateur-professional relations that permeated pre-astrophysics Australian astronomy.

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Education
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 186 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1991

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