Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… The Royal Society had coalesced 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 … 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 Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge … Priestley encouraged public lecturers to reproduce the phenomena he had discovered. Itinerants, including Walker, John Warltire, Benjamin Donn, and Henry Moyes, who were already teaching experimental science in various parts of England, …
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