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ItemOur chemical cultural heritage: Hartung (1893-1979)NEL, P (Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 2010)The history and evolution of the chemical cultural heritage of Australia is discussed. The dream of Ernst Johannes Hartung for the establishment of a new purpose-built building for chemistry at the University of Melbourne was finally realized.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableOur Chemical cultural heritage: Masson and Rivett (1885-1961)NEL, P (Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 2010)A new phase for chemistry at the University of Melbourne began in 1886, featuring David Masson and Albert Rivett, who also had instrumental roles in the birth of CSIRO.
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ItemCollections of paint colour charts, paint tins and paintings as a source for developing an understanding of paint making historyDredge, P (Museums Australia, 2011)A project looking at a collection of painting items from a studio used by the artist Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) from 1951 to 1953 is beginning to grapple with the subject of house paint technology from the pre World War II period up to the mid 1950s. Sidney Nolan was particularly engaged with house paint as an artist’s medium, and it seems sought information from paint makers to obtain a deep technical understanding of these complex paint systems. A number of additional collections of paint material held in Sydney museums have been identified that hold potential to provide new information on paint resins and pigments. A collection of historic paint colour charts which use the paint itself in the swatches of colour, and a collection of early synthetic paint resins from 1934-1937, are both valuable sources for analytical standards and the dating of technologies in Australia.
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ItemNo Preview AvailablePreserving the Past: How to ensure the development of the conservation profession in Australia is preserved for the futurePearson, C ; Lyall, J ; Sloggett, R ; Cook, I (AICCM, 2011-10-19)The first AICCM conference “Conservation in Australia”, which was held in Canberra in 1976 at the Australian National University, was organised by the few conservators located in Canberra. The intervening 35 years have seen changes in the organisation and conservation profession. This 2011 AICCM National Conference, “Conservation in Australia: Past, Present and Future”, now back in Canberra, will allow us to view where we have come from, and examine the challenges for the future development of the AICCM and Australian conservation profession.
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ItemReal Analysis in Paraconsistent LogicMcKubre-Jordens, M ; Weber, Z (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012-10-01)
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ItemSkepticism and Sanction: The Benefits of Rejecting Moral ResponsibilityLevy, N (SPRINGER, 2012-09)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableConservation in Australian museumsCook, ; Lyall, ; Pearson, ; Sloggett, RJ ; Griffin, ; Paroissien, (National Museum of Australia, 2011)
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ItemSearle's wager.Levy, N (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011-11)Nicholas Agar has recently argued that it would be irrational for future human beings to choose to radically enhance themselves by uploading their minds onto computers. Utilizing Searle's argument that machines cannot think, he claims that uploading might entail death. He grants that Searle's argument is controversial, but he claims, so long as there is a non-zero probability that uploading entails death, uploading is irrational. I argue that Agar's argument, like Pascal's wager on which it is modelled, fails, because the principle that we (or future agents) ought to avoid actions that might entail death is not action guiding. Too many actions fall under its scope for the principle to be plausible. I also argue that the probability that uploading entails death is likely to be lower than Agar recognizes.