Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… previously unknown elements, including sodium and potassium. He showed electrical sparks and explosions in the lecture theatre and used the newly discovered metals to create a model volcano, which he ignited to tumultuous applause. Davy’s … of a Man of Science (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Davy’s remarkable success in the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre set the terms for the nineteenth-century enterprise of scientific popularization. London, in particular, soon … displaying the sublime mysteries of astronomy with a contraption that showed the planets moving in a vertical plane on a theatre stage. 17 Scientific experiments, previously performed as the focus of socialization in the eighteenth-century …
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