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… A Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy (London, 1725), quoted in Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 123. … in balloons. Walker adopted the new gases in his lectures in York in the early 1770s, reproducing Priestley’s rhetoric about the utility of chemical science for humanity and the sublime prospect of its unending progress. 11 . … Life . 2nd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). Stewart, Larry, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, …
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