Science as public culture : chemistry and enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820

Science as public culture : chemistry and enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 /

Science as Public Culture joins a growing number of recent studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from 1760 to 1820, and relates it to the rise and subsequent eclipse of forms of civic life charact...

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Main Author: Golinski, Jan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Geschichte 1760-1820
Chemistry > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Chemistry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Chemistry > history
Chimie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Chimie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Chemistry.
Chemie
Chemie.
Mouvement des Lumières.
Chimie > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle.
Chimie > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle.
Sciences > Histoire.
Chimie > Histoire.
Sociologie des sciences > Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Science as public culture
  • 2. "The study of a gentleman": Chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment
  • Chemistry as an academic discipline
  • Gentlemanly science in the public realm
  • The social construction of the Scottish program
  • 3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightenment
  • The uses of chemistry in Enlightenment England
  • Making connections: Priestley's career
  • The experimenter and the writer
  • 4. Airs and their uses
  • Priestley's chemistry in public education
  • The birth of pneumatic medicine
  • The analysis of air
  • 5. The coming of the Chemical Revolution
  • Lavoisier's theory and its reception in Britain
  • The instruments of persuasion
  • Demonstration, authority, and community
  • 6. "Dr. Beddoes's Breath": Nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry
  • The Pneumatic Institution
  • Enthusiastic respirations: The nitrous oxide incident
  • The end of Enlightenment science?
  • 7. Humphry Davy: The public face of genius
  • Davy's career: The creation of a public audience
  • The voltaic pile: The making of an instrument
  • Chlorine and "the lever of experiment"
  • 8. Analysis, education, and the chemical community
  • Specialist careers in the London chemical community
  • The identity of the discipline and the reception of Dalton's atomic theory
  • Mineralogy and the development of chemical analysis
  • Conclusion: Discipline-formation and public science.

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