Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… Bath, Birmingham, Chester, and Shrewsbury, announcing his arrival in advance in newspaper advertisements and having subscriptions collected by a bookseller or publican. If customers appeared, he would give one or more courses, each of a … number of less formal groups throughout the British Isles. Conversation societies, literary societies, student clubs, subscription libraries, and local improvement societies flourished, sometimes meeting in private dwellings but more …
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