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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… 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 assembly of witnesses who could freely assent to the truth of what they saw. … literary societies, student clubs, subscription libraries, and local improvement societies flourished, sometimes meeting in private dwellings but more usually in hired rooms in coffeehouses , inns, or taverns. Scientific topics were … individuals could socialize on an equal basis. It does not appear that experiments were performed in the society’s meetings, but empirical facts were frequently discussed. The members coalesced around acceptance of what were sometimes …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… and freely received by the great number of persons that were present of all qualities’. 5 Coffeehouses enabled the meeting of commerce and a post-courtly elite, as the merchants’ efforts to disseminate these artefacts were met by the … in accumulating objects. The lots he attributed both fuelled polite conversation and provided the décor for sociable meetings. Auction doubled as a spectacle where people looked at unique artefacts while observing how other bidders’ …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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