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Erasmus Darwin
[ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… Image Joseph Wright of Derby, ‘An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby’, Wikimedia Commons, NG 725, 1768. Image Joseph Wright of … of changes. Erasmus Darwin investigated the origin of sociability in primitive species through speculative science and experimentation. By observing micro-organisms such as the volvox or the polypus, he supposed that the affection of a …
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… practice of medicine; for anatomy, chemistry, botany, and the materia medica, over and above those of mathematics and experimental philosophy; and all these are given by men of distinguished talents. What renders this part of education …
… endeavours to speak in ‘the real language of men in a state of vivid excitement’. 2 The linguistic and sociological ‘experiments’ ( Prose I, 116) that he conducts in Lyrical Ballads give expression to his social awareness, with a … friendship with S. T. Coleridge, who co-authored the volume. The poems of this period thus materialise the poetic experimentations, mutual influence, and intellectual creativity that united both poets. 2 . William Wordsworth, The …
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William Godwin (and his diary)
[ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]
… and after 1793, he lived in constant interaction with people, many of whom were linked to cultural and literary experimentation, political reform, and challenging the status quo. And in that sense they are ‘networks of reform’. But … move. Godwin sought a truly emancipatory exchanges – but these proved serially evanescent and elusive. Nonetheless, his experiment helps raise profound questions about the inbuilt limits to the radical potential of late eighteenth-century …
Mary Delany
[ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… 320-30). Court sociability Mary Delany eventually gained access to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte, experimenting two very different forms of court sociability, the one from the outside, the other from the inside. 14 From …
… (LF I, 1, 12 ; I, 2, 12), frequenting cafés , 16 theLycée (LF I, 2, 18) 17 and spa towns (LF I, 1, 23 ; I, 2, 21), experimenting with new forms of sociability through revolutionary celebrations 18 for the purposes of social …
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