Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… 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 … Philosophical Society, and the Mathematical Society formed by weavers in Spitalfields in the East End of London. The Lunar Society, which embraced doctors, chemists, and industrialists around Birmingham in the second half of the eighteenth century, was perhaps the best known of those gatherings. 9 9 . Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002). The Coffee House …
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