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… consumption and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Keywords Audience Coffeehouses Conversation Public sphere Science Scientific experiments played a significant role in the spaces of sociability that characterized British society in the eighteenth century. They were shown in learned societies, educational institutions, clubs, assembly rooms, … public lectures offered to paying audiences. As epistemic practices, they were shaped by conventions forged in the Royal Society of London after its formation in 1660. The Royal Society had coalesced as a microcosm of the restored social …

… century. Bath set up an innovative model of spa sociability that supposedly exemplified the main principles of an ‘open society,’ while Pyrmont also defined a new approach to spa life but along different lines. This comparative entry seeks … > Nature Keywords Celebrity Fame Health Rules Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for Neil McKendrick in the  Birth of a Consumer Society. The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England 1   relies on a flexible and open political and social …

… that exercised the ‘ conversible World ’ could only be worked out in dialogue, mutual exchange, and – in short – society: Such subjects of thought require not sufficient Employment in Solitude, but require the Company and Conversation of our Fellow-Creatures, to render them a proper Exercise for the Mind: And this brings Mankind together in Society, where every one displays his Thoughts and Observations in the best Manner he is able, and mutually gives and … from the most informal of convivial clubs to more formalised philosophical and professional societies such as the Select Society. Many of these were dedicated to the causes of Scottish economic and agricultural prosperity, to the refinement …