… powers of nature, and admiration for enlightened rationality. Experimentation elicited such feelings by bringing natural philosophy (in the words of Joseph Addison ) ‘out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and … James Hodgson, fellow of the Royal Society and mathematics teacher at Christ’s Hospital, offered a course on natural philosophy and astronomy. He partnered with the instrument-maker Francis Hauksbee to show apparatus to ‘Curious and … (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010), p. 90. 3 . John Theophilus Desaguliers, A Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy (London, 1725), quoted in Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural …