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… 18, n° 2, 1984-1985, p. 186-214). 2 . E. J. Hundert, The Enlightenment’s Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). 3 . Michael G. Ketcham, Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance, … new spaces of sociability (the coffeehouse being a premier example); likewise, new institutions (varieties of club and society) were proliferating. 5  A feature of these venues and institutions, noted by contemporaries, was the co-presence … in a way that would be pleasurable and productive. 5 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). These changes, reinforced by others such as …

… consumption and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Mots-clés Audience 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, educational institutions, clubs, assembly rooms, … public lectures 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 …