… guineas for the opportunity. 2 Other lecturers soon followed in the metropolitan market, including Humphry Ditton and
John Harris. William Whiston, expelled from his professorship at Cambridge University for religious heterodoxy, moved to … Button’s in Covent Garden, Douglas’s in St. Martin’s Lane, and the Marine near the Royal Exchange. The Huguenot refugee
John Theophilus Desaguliers assumed a similar profile, having studied at Oxford University before he arrived to teach in … Society presided over by Erasmus Darwin in Derby, the Bath Philosophical Society, and the Mathematical Society formed by
weavers in Spitalfields in the East End of London. The Lunar Society, which embraced doctors, chemists, and …