Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… of London after its formation in 1660. The Royal Society had coalesced as a microcosm of the restored social order in England after the upheavals of the civil wars and interregnum. At its meetings, experiments were performed for an … was followed by dozens of others in the remaining years of the century. The Scottish astronomer James Ferguson toured England from the late 1740s, teaching with globes and orreries (mechanical models of the solar system) of his own … shows an orrery being used to demonstrate the motions of the planets. Adam Walker, an itinerant lecturer in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the 1760s and 1770s, and subsequently based in London, exhibited a large vertical …
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