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

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

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. 288 p. Schutzumschlag etwas berieben und lichtbedingt teilweise gebräunt, aber innen sehr sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Dust jacket a little rubbed and partially browned due to light, but very clean inside and without annotations. - Contents List of Tables List of contributors Preface 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 Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1837-53 Jack Morrell 9 Medical elites, the general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera epidemic of 1831-2 Michael Durey General index Name index. ISBN 9780812278552 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450. Artikel-Nr. 1230525

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