Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… Résumé In eighteenth-century Britain, scientific experiments were shown in locations as varied as coffeehouses, learned societies, and public lectures. They conveyed natural knowledge through shared aesthetic experiences; they also elicited … 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 introduced restrictions that also impacted informal … Reid, which claimed that London was a hotbed of ‘infidel societies'. 13 Laws passed in 1795, 1799, and 1817 required debating societies to obtain licenses from the authorities. The Academic Society of London, the City Philosophical …
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