Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… 3 vols. (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1790), 1, p. xix. In the 1790s, political tensions following the outbreak of the French Revolution began to impinge on the public culture of science in Britain. The government suspected debating and discussion … relations surrounding public experimentation. It seems telling that several commentators likened them to the fervor of revolutionary political change, which threatened to spread through society with equally dramatic results. Priestley and …
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