Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… offered to paying audiences. As epistemic practices, they were shaped by conventions forged in the Royal Society of London after its formation in 1660. The Royal Society had coalesced as a microcosm of the restored social order in … Spectator, no. 10 (12 March 1711). Public lectures with experimental demonstrations were initiated by a small group of London-based pioneers around the turn of the century. In 1705, James Hodgson, fellow of the Royal Society and mathematics … John Harris. William Whiston, expelled from his professorship at Cambridge University for religious heterodoxy, moved to London in 1710 and began a career of public lecturing that lasted until the middle of the century. During his first few …
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