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Robert Carr Bosanquet
(7 Jun 1871 - 21 Apr 1935)
English archaeologist who was Professor of classical archaeology at the University of Liverpool (1906-1920). His excavations in Britain began at the Housesteads Roman fort of Hadrian’s Wall (1898). Later in his career, his activity was focused in Crete.
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Science Quotes by Robert Carr Bosanquet (2 quotes)
Sir Arthur Evans … furnishes the European culture of to-day with title-deeds going back to the
fourth millennium B.C. … [His book has] a great theme and beset with difficulty, but the author has gifts that fit him to act as guide through this labyrinth.
— Robert Carr Bosanquet
From Bosanquet’s book review, 'The Realm of Minos', (of Sir Arthur Evans’, The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos: Volume I), in Harold Cox, ed., The Edinburgh Review (Jul 1922), 236, No. 481, 49.
The threads that archaeology has put in Sir Arthur Evans’ hands are of necessity tangled, faded and broken; yet his learning and intuition have enabled him to weave them into a coherent whole that is almost history.
— Robert Carr Bosanquet
From Bosanquet’s book review, 'The Realm of Minos', (of Sir Arthur Evans’, The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos: Volume I), in Harold Cox, ed., The Edinburgh Review (Jul 1922), 236, No. 481, 70.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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