Record ID:
35723713 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 85305870
Heading:
Birth:
  • 17741124
  • Hilltown (Dundee, Scotland)
Death:
  • 18570729
  • Broughty Ferry (Dundee, Scotland)
Associated with:
  • Scotland Edinburgh (Scotland)
Occupations:
  • Presbyterians Scientists Astronomers
Used for:
  • Citizen of Edinburgh, 1774-1857
Notes:
  • His The atmosphere and atmospherical phenomena, 1850: t.p. (Thomas Dick)
  • DNB (Dick, Thomas; scientific writer; b. 11/24/1774; d. 7/29/1857)
  • His The trade of the future, 1850: t.p. (a citizen of Edinburgh)
  • Halkett & Laing (a citizen of Edinburgh, Thomas Dick)
  • Wikipedia 4 April 2020: (Reverend Thomas Dick (24 November 1774 – 29 July 1857), was a British church minister, science teacher and writer, known for his works on astronomy and practical philosophy. He was born in Hilltown, Dundee; while a boy he became fascinated with astronomy and made his own telescope; he was later a preacher, then a teacher, and an active proponent of popular literary and philosophical societies. He worked to achieve a harmony between Christianity ans science. He died at Broughty Ferry, near Dundee.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dick_(scientist)
Local system number:
  • 000000728012
  • abv05017645
Cataloguing source:
  • MWA eng rda DLC DLC MdU VJTL