… that fired up the imagination of the young schoolboys, Coleridge lost his brother and his beloved sister Nancy. His college days at Cambridge would be a curious mix of Bacchanalian festivities - attending wine parties, flirting with … mentor. From 1824 to 1828, Green gave a series of lectures on comparative anatomy as Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. Coleridge collaborated with Green for the drafting of some of these …
… feelings by bringing natural philosophy (in the words of Joseph Addison ) ‘out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses .' 1 1 . [Joseph Addison], The Spectator, …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science