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Agnew, D. C. "Robert Fitzroy and the myth of the ‘Marsden Square’: Transatlantic rivalries in early marine meteorology." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 58, no. 1 (January 22, 2004): 21–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2003.0223.

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Marine data (especially in meteorology) are often grouped geographically using a set of numbered 10° latitude–longitude squares known as Marsden squares, which are usually attributed to William Marsden, Secretary of the Admiralty (and Vice–President of The Royal Society), who supposedly invented them early in the nineteenth century. Available records suggest that this system was in fact probably invented by Robert FitzRoy soon after his appointment as head of the British Meteorological Office in 1854. FitzRoy felt that early English work in marine meteorology was being ignored, notably by the American Matthew Fontaine Maury, who had pioneered the collecting of marine meteorological data from ship's logs. A desire to undo this wrong led FitzRoy to emphasize earlier (though abortive) British projects by A.B. Becher (in 1831) and by Marsden (probably in the 1780s), both of which involved grouping marine data geographically, though only over limited areas. FitzRoy's treatment of this earlier work seems to have created, much later, the belief that Marsden had invented the system of 10° squares. Given both Maury's and FitzRoy's desire to demonstrate priority in this field, it is ironic that the first clear proposal to collect and group data from ship's logs was made by the American (and British) natural philosopher Isaac Greenwood in 1728.
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Ellis, Frederick E. "ROBERT FITZROY: ABOARD H.M.S.THETISAND H.M.S.GANGES1824–1828." Mariner's Mirror 75, no. 1 (January 1989): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1989.10656230.

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Ellis, Frederick E. "ROBERT FITZROY: MIDSHIPMAN ABOARD H.M.S.HIND, 1822–26." Mariner's Mirror 72, no. 2 (January 1986): 117–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1986.10656077.

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ANDERSON, KATHARINE. "Reading and writing the scientific voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies Ross." British Journal for the History of Science 51, no. 3 (August 13, 2018): 369–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708741800050x.

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AbstractAn unpublished satirical work, written c.1848–1854, provides fresh insight into the most famous scientific voyage of the nineteenth century. John Clunies Ross, settler of Cocos-Keeling – which HMS Beagle visited in April 1836 – felt that Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin had ‘depreciated’ the atoll on which he and his family had settled a decade earlier. Producing a mock ‘supplement’ to a new edition of FitzRoy's Narrative, Ross criticized their science and their casual appropriation of local knowledge. Ross's virtually unknown work is intriguing not only for its glimpse of the Beagle voyage, but also as a self-portrait of an imperial scientific reader. An experienced merchant seaman and trader–entrepreneur with decades of experience in the region, Ross had a very different perspective from that of FitzRoy or Darwin. Yet he shared many of their assumptions about the importance of natural knowledge, embracing it as part of his own imperial projects. Showing the global reach of print culture, he used editing and revision as satirical weapons, insisting on his right to participate as both reader and author in scientific debate.
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Burton, Jim. "Robert FitzRoy and the Early History of the Meteorological Office." British Journal for the History of Science 19, no. 2 (July 1986): 147–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400022949.

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Historians of science have shown little interest in meteorology and, in Britain at least, have almost totally ignored the development of meteorological institutions. The Meteorological Office itself has found some mention at times such as its supposed centenary in 1955, but even then the interest has come mainly from meteorologists writing for the delectation of their fellows. This neglect is surprising because the story of the Office contains much to reward the historian. Its very formation as a governmental scientific institution in 1854 supports arguments against the popular concept of mid-nineteenth century Britain as a cauldron of unbridledlaissez-faire; the role it adopted in developing practical usages for science brought it into conflict with members of the academic scientific establishment; its later transition from an inaugural period as a department of the Board of Trade to a second phase under the control of a committee appointed by the Royal Society, with consequent changes in the methods of financing and administration, gives useful insights into the contemporary attitudes of government officials towards public expenditure on science; and its first head, Robert FitzRoy, was himself a man of such remarkable interest and complexity as to render the subject worthy of investigation on that count alone.
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BOURNE, W. R. P. "FitzRoy's foxes and Darwin's finches." Archives of Natural History 19, no. 1 (February 1992): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1992.19.1.29.

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There has been much speculation whether the development of Charles Darwin's ideas about the origin of species was influenced by the Captain of H.M.S. Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, who was both a scientist and religious fundamentalist. There is little evidence that FitzRoy ever had much influence on Darwin's ideas about the animals usually identified as the source of his views on the Galapagos, however. Little attention has been paid to the presence, at the end of the passage where Darwin first comments on their variation, of a reference to the occurrence of a similar phenomenon in the Falkland Fox Dusicyon australis, although the crew of the Beagle first encountered the fox two and a half years earlier. On examining their reports on the Falklands, which appears to be the first place where they had much time to study the animals of islands, it seems that initially it was FitzRoy who paid most attention to the fox, and speculated about its origin and variation. He commented on the similarity of the latter to that found in domestic animals, whereas Darwin thought it provided evidence for a “centre of creation” and questioned if it varied. The Falklands may also be one of the first places where Darwin encountered the co-existence of sibling species of finch.
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Passetti, Gabriel. "O Brasil no relato de viagens do comandante Robert FitzRoy do HMS Beagle, 1828-1839." História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 21, no. 3 (September 2014): 911–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702014000300007.

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Na década de 1830, os navios da Marinha Real britânica tinham a missão de realizar mapeamentos precisos de costas e portos, contatar governos locais e estabelecer relações comerciais e diplomáticas. Ao voltar à Inglaterra, homens como Robert FitzRoy, comandante do His Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Beagle, publicaram relatos de suas expedições. Descreveram e analisaram as sociedades visitadas, comparando-as com a atuação britânica no globo. No Brasil, entusiasmaram-se com as paisagens tropicais e criticaram seus habitantes, tidos como ineficientes na exploração econômica e socialmente atrasados. Naqueles anos, a ciência acompanhou a expansão imperial britânica, e os relatos dos comandantes legitimaram discursos sobre suas práticas de dominação.
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Barlow, Derek. "From wind stars to weather forecasts: The last voyage of Admiral Robert FitzRoy*." Weather 49, no. 4 (April 1994): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1994.tb07237.x.

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Passetti, Gabriel. "Entre a viagem, a escrita e a publicação do relato, um mar de interesses. Argentina, Chile e Nova Zelândia comparados pelo britânico Robert FitzRoy na década de 1830." História (São Paulo) 32, no. 1 (June 2013): 304–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0101-90742013000100017.

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Este artigo tem por objetivo discutir as relações entre a viagem, a escrita, a publicação de um relato e os interesses pessoais e a conjuntura social e política no momento de sua redação. A discussão recai sobre as escolhas na seleção de temas e formas de descrever locais, a partir de objetivos pessoais, econômicos ou políticos. São analisadas as imagens da América do Sul e da Oceania presentes no livro Narrative of the surveying voyages of HMS Beagle, produzido pelo comandante da Marinha Britânica Robert FitzRoy, entre os anos de 1836 e 1839, no contexto de intensas discussões e projetos para a expansão do império britânico.
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Zillman, John. "Von Neumayer and the origins of Australian and international meteorology." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 123, no. 1 (2011): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs11070.

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Georg von Neumayer played a central role in building the foundations of Australian meteorology and in shaping the global framework of cooperation under the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), the forerunner of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Though his time in Australia was relatively brief, his name stands alongside those of Lieutenant William Dawes (active from 1788-1791), Sir Thomas Brisbane (1822-24), Robert Ellery (1863-1895), Sir Charles Todd (1856-1906), Clement Wragge (1883-1903) and Henry Chamberlain Russell (1859-1904) in the short list of Australia’s outstanding meteorological pioneers; and with Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Admiral Robert FitzRoy and Professors C.H.D. Buys Ballot, H. Wild and E. Mascart in building the 19th century framework for international cooperation in meteorology, especially through his role as President of the International Polar Commission which organised the First International Polar Year (1882-83). This paper provides a brief overview of the origins of Australian meteorology and of the 1873 establishment and early work of the IMO in providing the international framework for cooperation in meteorology until its replacement by the intergovernmental WMO in 1950.
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Books on the topic "Fitzroy, Robert"

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Gribbin, John R. FitzRoy: The remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast. London: Review, 2003.

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Mary, Gribbin, ed. FitzRoy: The remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

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Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World. Profile Books Ltd, 2003.

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Gribbin, John R. Fitzroy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast. Review, 2003.

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Gribbin, John R. Fitzroy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast. Review, 2003.

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Gribbin, Mary, and John R. Gribbin. FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast. Yale University Press, 2004.

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Taylor, James. Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Extraordinary Voyage Aboard Fitzroy's Famous Survey Ship. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

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Anderson, Katharine. Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 1. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

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Anderson, Katharine. Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 4. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

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Anderson, Katharine. Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 3. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

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