History of science

The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body.

Wallace was a wonderful man.

Sir David Rivett was an Australian chemist and Chief Executive Officer of CSIR between 1927 and 1945.

Sir David Rivett was an Australian chemist and Chief Executive Officer of CSIR between 1927 and 1945.

The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the structural and functional elements of important floodplain and wetland ecosystems.

The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the structural and functional elements of important floodplain and wetland ecosystems.

This book provides readers with a unique understanding of the ways in which Aboriginal people interacted with their environment in the past at one particular location in western New South Wales.

This book provides readers with a unique understanding of the ways in which Aboriginal people interacted with their environment in the past at one particular location in western New South Wales.

This book tells the fascinating success story of saving the flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island.

This book tells the fascinating success story of saving the flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island.

The opening of the Parkes radio telescope in October 1961 placed Australia at the forefront of international research in radio astronomy and ushered in an era of rapid developments in our understanding of the origin and nature of the Universe and our place within it.

The story of the Animal Health Research Laboratory must be seen against a background of rapid domestic, global and techno-scientific change.

The Lennox Legacy: The history of the CSIRO Laboratory at 343 Royal Parade Parkville records many of the events and incidents associated with the genesis and development of the Division of Protein Chemistry over a period of more than fifty years.

The main purpose of this book is to give food technologists in industry and students in training a comprehensive review of research findings by Australian workers in government, university and industrial laboratories from 1900 to 1990.

Alumina to Zirconia is a history of the CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry, and tells the story of a significant part of Australia's mineral heritage.

This volume is the first comprehensive account of the formation of CSIRO Entomology and the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) and covers the growth of this national collection over its first 65 years.

March 16th, 1966, marked the jubilee of Commonwealth sponsored scientific research in Australia.

The opening of the Parkes radio telescope in October 1961 placed Australia at the forefront of international research in radio astronomy and ushered in an era of rapid developments in our understanding of the origin and nature of the Universe and our place within it.

The Lennox Legacy: The history of the CSIRO Laboratory at 343 Royal Parade Parkville records many of the events and incidents associated with the genesis and development of the Division of Protein Chemistry over a period of more than fifty years.

The main purpose of this book is to give food technologists in industry and students in training a comprehensive review of research findings by Australian workers in government, university and industrial laboratories from 1900 to 1990.

Alumina to Zirconia is a history of the CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry, and tells the story of a significant part of Australia's mineral heritage.

This volume is the first comprehensive account of the formation of CSIRO Entomology and the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) and covers the growth of this national collection over its first 65 years.

In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia's highly diverse plants and animals.

In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia’s highly diverse plants and animals.

Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range.

Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range.

For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city.

Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region.

This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition.

CSIRO went to sea in 1936, when it established a Fisheries Investigation Section.

Shaping Science and Industry touches on Australia's intellectual, political and economic life.

This book describes the evolution and development of the Division's research throughout the years and the ways in which scientists responded to the needs of the community.

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia.

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia.

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61.

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61.

The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales.

The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales.

This book traces the discovery of Australia's fishes from the earliest days of taxonomy to the first part of the 20th century.

This book traces the discovery of Australia’s fishes from the earliest days of taxonomy to the first part of the 20th century.

Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia.

Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia.

March 16th, 1966, marked the jubilee of Commonwealth sponsored scientific research in Australia.

Pleuropneumonia has had a long history in Australia.

This definitive work on the introduction of domestic animals to Australia begins with the first white settlement at Botany Bay.

The world's most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language.

The National Heritage List was created in January 2004 to recognise, celebrate and protect places of outstanding heritage value to the nation.

The Australian Capital Territory is a treasure trove for naturalists, despite being without a coastline, without rainforest or without deserts.

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society.

Green Harvest explores the ideas and practices that have shaped organic farming and gardening in Australia from the interwar years to the present day.