The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

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Intro -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- History -- 1 Ancient Greek red-figure pottery: Arthur Dale Trendall -- 2 Medieval Icelandic sagas and poetry: Margaret Clunies Ross -- 3 Early Australian colonies and Federation: John Manning Ward -- Jurisprudence -- 4 Protecting the common law fromautocracy: Alice Erh-Soon Tay -- 5 Ensuring legal decisions reflectsociety's mores: Julius Stone -- Economics -- 6 Identifying instabilities in financialinstitutions: Warren Pat Hogan -- Philosophy

7 Truth, time and causality: Huw Price -- 8 Brain and mind: David Armstrong -- 9 Foundations of modern science: Stephen Gaukroger -- Physics, engineering andastronomy -- 10 Star magnitudes and the invention ofthe stellar interferometer: Robert Hanbury Brown -- 11 Radio signals from stars and theinvention of the Mills Cross telescope: Bernard Mills -- 12 Radio signals from sunspots and theinvention of the swept-lobeinterferometer: Ruby Payne-Scott -- Chemistry and geology -- 13 Photosynthesis and the quantummechanics of electron transfer: Noel S. Hush

14 Discovery of land masses in Antarcticaand Precambrian fossils: Tannatt William Edgeworth David -- Biology, epidemiology andmathematics -- 15 Distribution and abundance of species: Louis Charles Birch -- 16 Biodiversity, the spread of diseases andmathematical predictions: Robert May -- 17 Malignant melanoma, rubella hearingloss and mathematical correlations: Henry Oliver Lancaster -- Neuroscience, neurology andrespiratory medicine -- 18 Seeing the world in three dimensionsdepends on identified neuralmechanisms: Peter Bishop

19 Delaying nerve degeneration, inheriteddiseases and multiple sclerosis: James McLeod -- 20 Asthma risk factors identified asallergens and genetic predispositions: Ann Janet Woolcock -- Epilogue: Knowledge and understanding -- References -- Index

For nearly a millennium, universities have searched for knowledge, understanding and truth. Max Bennett evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars in the University of Sydney's history and shows how this university's search has advanced society in manifold ways.

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