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… based in London, exhibited a large vertical orrery he called the ‘eidouranion.’ 5 . John R. Millburn, Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker and ‘Country Showman’ (Leiden: Noordhoff, 1976). The scene depicted in Wright’s painting is not … of ‘infidel societies'. 13 Laws passed in 1795, 1799, and 1817 required debating societies to obtain licenses from the authorities. The Academic Society of London, the City Philosophical Society, and the Philomathic Institution were denied … Askesian Society of London, 1796-1807’, Annals of Science (vol. 34, 1977), p. 1–32. Millburn, John R., Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker and ‘Country Showman’ (Leiden: Noordhoff, 1976). Morus, Iwan, Simon Schaffer, and Jim Secord, …
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