Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… p. xix. In the 1790s, political tensions following the outbreak of the French Revolution began to impinge on the public culture of science in Britain. The government suspected debating and discussion societies of fomenting subversion and … URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/scientific-experiments.html Further Reading Golinski, Jan, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992). … and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. … Golinski, Jan, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992). …
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