Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780 - 1850Ian Inkster, Jack Morrell This collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution, 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. The book analyses science and scientific culture in their local contexts, both metropolitan and provincial, examining where possibel the relations between the two, and emphasizing the range of scientific associations in London, to individual savants in the provinces. This book was first published in 1983.
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reflections on the reform movement in the Royal Society 183048 | 55 |
3 The London lecturing empire 180050 | 91 |
a case study in science and social improvement | 120 |
Edinburgh and the diffusion of science in the 1830s | 151 |
Bristol 182060 | 179 |
William Turner and the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society | 205 |
the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire | 231 |
9 Medical elites the general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera epidemic of 18312 | 257 |
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