Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… natural knowledge through shared aesthetic experiences; they also elicited conversation and facilitated new forms of sociability. At the beginning of the era, William Whiston and others showed demonstrations of mechanics in coffeehouses. … Coffeehouses Conversation Public sphere Science Scientific experiments played a significant role in the spaces of sociability that characterized British society in the eighteenth century. They were shown in learned societies, … were replicated in other locations during the eighteenth century, experiments were adapted to more common modes of sociability. The audience was widened to include women and even children, who attended public lectures and viewed …
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