But for many of their more sensitive contemporaries, these scientific conquests were cultural and psychological defeats.
Do we still privilege the heroic, risk-taking, conquest-oriented scientific projects (like data gathering in remote parts of Antarctica) over more "mundane" projects that don't involve adventure and risk into wild nature?
Patricia Fara in Literary Review seemed a little more annoyed with the study, and not only because "virtually the only reference to women occurs when the author exchanges conquest notes with a scientific colleague in a harbour cafe".
Scott's plans gradually came to fruition – a large-scale scientific and geographical expedition with the conquest of the South Pole as its principal objective.
Professor Desio had organized 10 scientific expeditions abroad before embarking upon the conquest of K2 in 1954.
His most influential books on these topics include his Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916), On Education (1926), Why I Am Not a Christian (1927c), Marriage and Morals (1929), The Conquest of Happiness (1930), The Scientific Outlook (1931), and Power: A New Social Analysis (1938).
Together with Aristotle he had tutored Alexander the Great whose military conquests were carried out with all the scientific resources of the day, the Lyceum garden probably containing many botanical trophies collected during his campaigns as well as other explorations in distant lands.
Wilson's apostasy, which he lays out in a forthcoming book, "The Social Conquest of the Earth," has set off a scientific furor.
Most tellingly, Europe becomes the principle locus of philosophical and scientific activity only when it comes to dominate the global economy through the conquest of the New World and the consequent shifting of the economic center of the world from Asia to Europe.
And within another scientific and technological frame of reference we are treated to loud boasts about man's conquest of nature, a special case of which is that conquest of space with which we are presently concerned.
