Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall (1773 - 1860)

Books

• Gibbs, W. J., The Origins of Australian Meteorology , Metarch Papers No. 12, Bureau of Meteorology, 1998. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

• Sweetman, John and Mcconnell, Anita, 'Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1773-1860', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

• Maiden, J.H., 'Portraits of Scientific Men of New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xliv, 1912, pp. 17-20. [ Details ]

• O'Hagan, J. E., 'Sir Thomas Brisbane, FRS, A Founder of Organised Science in Australia.', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, vol. vi, 1960, pp. 594-603. [ Details ]

• Russell, H.C., 'Astronomical and Meteorological Workers in New South Wales, 1778-1860', Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, vol. 1, 1888, pp. 45-94. [ Details ]

• Saunders, Shirley D., 'Sir Thomas Brisbane's Legacy to Colonial Science: Colonial Astronomy at the Parramatta Observatory, 1822-1848', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 15, no. 2, 2004, pp. 177-209. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR04009.htm) [ Details ]

• 'Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000262p.htm. [ Details ]
• Gibbs, W. J., 'The Origins of Australian Meteorology', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0805.html. [ Details ]

• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000262. [ Details ]