Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… Priestley and his associates introduced new gases in public lectures. Experiments were both commodities supplying a kind of cultural consumption and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > … C. Bathurst and T. Lowndes, 1775) 1, p. xii, ii. 12 . Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of Natural Philosophy, 2nd ed., 3 vols. (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1790), 1, p. xix. In … Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1573, unknown date. 15 . Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Davy’s remarkable success in the Royal Institution’s …
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