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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]

… Résumé Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific institution. In the long eighteenth century, fellows dedicated themselves to … them together were also profoundly social and dictated by social convention. Like other London academies, the Royal Society conformed to eighteenth-century notions of sociability. In the spaces of Gresham College, and later Crane Court, … to the processes of experimental knowledge-making. Places > Institutions Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Royal Society Fellows Experiment Philosophical Transactions Gentlemen science On 28 November 1660, the first Royal Society …

Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]

… known for inciting the lurid imagination of Grub Street through the creation of the Brotherhood of St. Francis, a secret society which has since come to be known as the Hell-fire Club. Thus, on the one hand, Dashwood’s life highlights the … hand, his involvement with the Hell-fire Club provides a remarkable if distorted mirror image of the eighteenth-century society’s focus on manners and conviviality. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Hell-fire Club Society of Dilettanti Divan Club Grand Tour Travelling Secret Society The history of Sir Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le …

Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]

… Résumé Henry Oldenburg was at the centre of the two local social groups formed by the Royal Society, of which he was one of the secretaries, and the international social grouping created by his network of … community during this period. People > Science Mots-clés Correspondence Oldenburg Philosophical Transactions Royal Society Scientific community In the late seventeenth century, scientists, or ‘ natural philosophers ‘  as they were then … but closely involved in scientific matters, falls into this pattern. He was one of the first secretaries of the Royal Society of London, and he was the centre of a network of scientific correspondence, which was to form the basis of the …

Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]

… caused by transformism. To some extent, Darwin’s theory reflected his own social practices: he wanted to lead British society toward a golden age through his network of radical thinkers, including the members of the Lunar Society but also the circle of Joseph Johnson in London, struggling for abolitionism and social reforms. People > Science People > Art and Literature People > Philosophy Mots-clés Darwin Lunar society Correspondence Scientific community Half a century before Charles Darwin published his essay On the Origin of …

John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… being the subject of a Treason Trial in 1794, and for his involvement in radical groups such as the London Corresponding Society in which he helped to forge a new model of political sociability. His interest in finding the best means to … wide variety of print productions. People > Art and Literature People > Politics People > Association Mots-clés Debating Society Eloquence French Revolution Journalism Oratory Public sphere print poetry John Thelwall was born in Chandos … of identity. As his second wife, Cecile Thelwall wrote in her 1837 biography: ‘ the prospect of mingling in circles of society, more correspondent to his taste and turn of mind than those to which had hitherto been confined, had altogether …