Metropolis and Province : Science in British Culture, 1780 - 1850

ISBN-13: 9780415418041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str.

Ian Inkster; Jack Morrell

Opis

A collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution. This work explores the social basis of science in the period and asks why such an extraordinarily rich variety of cultural-scientific experience should have flourished at the time.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Aspects of the history of science and science culture in Britain, 1780-1850 and beyond, Ian Inkster 2. Whigs and Savants: reflections on the reform movement in the Royal Society, 1830-48, Roy M. MacLeod 3. The London lecturing empire, 1800-50, J.N. Hays 4. The British Mineralogical Society: a case study in science and social improvement, Paul Weindling 5. 'Nibbling at the teats of science': Edinburgh and the diffusion of science in the 1830s, Steven Shapin 6. Science in a commercial city: Bristol 1820-60, Michael Neve 7. Rational dissent and provincial science: William Turner and the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, Derek Orange 8. Economic and ornamental geology: the Geographical and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1837-52, Jack Morrell 9. Medical elites, the general practitioner and patient powerin Britain during the cholera epidemic of 1831-2, Micheal Durey

O autorze

Ian Inkster