Enlightenment, Modernity and Science (e-bog) af Paul A. Elliot, Elliot

Enlightenment, Modernity and Science e-bog

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Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences in town and country and from region to region? Enlightenment, Modernity and Science provides the ...
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Forfattere Paul A. Elliot, Elliot (forfatter)
Forlag I.B. Tauris
Udgivet 30 oktober 2010
Længde 384 sider
Genrer 1DBKE
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780857718969
Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences in town and country and from region to region? Enlightenment, Modernity and Science provides the first full length study of the geographies of Georgian scientific culture in England. The author takes the reader on a tour of the principal arenas in which scientific ideas were disseminated, including home, town and countryside, to show how cultures of science and knowledge varied across the Georgian landscape. Taking in key figures such as Erasmus Darwin, Abraham Bennett, and Joseph Priestley along the way, it is a work that sheds important light on the complex geographies of Georgian English scientific culture.