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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]

… Institutions Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Royal Society Fellows Experiment Philosophical Transactions Gentlemen science On 28 November 1660, the first Royal Society meeting took place at Gresham College following an astronomy lecture … mathematical, and mechanical’ and that their work, through ‘the authority of experiment’, sought to advance both the ‘science of natural things’ as well as ‘useful arts.’ 1   The Royal Society was a voluntary organization described by John …   Despite its royal charter, financial assistance from the crown was minimal, especially in contrast to the Académie des Sciences in Paris where a smaller group of men applied themselves to the sciences and arts on state salaries. Historians …

Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]

… and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Mots-clés experiments science chemistry electricity mechanics public lecture association Meeting Society Coffeehouses Public sphere … Year’s close Application to books only.' 3 2 . Daily Courant, 9 December 1704, quoted in Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010), p. 90. 3 …

Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… au XVIII e siècle. Impliquant des collectionneurs, des amateurs d’art, des marchands, des amateurs et des hommes de science, la notion de collection s’est progressivement développée autour des cabinets de curiosité, des demeures … & Interior decoration Objects > Art & Luxury Mots-clés Antiquity Art Cabinets of curiosity Collectors museums Aesthetics science Art market Italy Rome Au XVIII e siècle, les collections sont non seulement des objets de délectation esthétique, … au XVIII e siècle. Impliquant des collectionneurs, des amateurs d’art, des marchands, des amateurs et des hommes de science, la notion de collection s’est progressivement développée autour des cabinets de curiosité, des demeures …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… pastime, that allowed the cultivation of manly virtues. To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a … pastime, that allowed the cultivation of manly virtues. To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a … – enabled the confusion of social classes, the middling-class mixing with the rank-and-file.   Boxing as an art & a science The rules of prizefighting The growing popularity of boxing in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a global …

Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]

… correspondence. He used this network to found the Philosophical Transactions , the first periodical devoted entirely to science and technology. Oldenburg and the journal he created were central to the development of a social scientific international community during this period. People > Science Mots-clés Correspondence Oldenburg Philosophical Transactions Royal Society Scientific community In the late … correspondence, which was to form the basis of the Philosophical Transactions , the first periodical devoted to science and technology. Henry Oldenburg was closely involved with the Royal Society. Although he was not present at the …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]

… Résumé Coleridge was writing at a time when the science of man was taken up by a variety of emerging disciplines such as anthropology, chemistry, ethics, psychology, sociology … Coleridge kept pace with the progress of these sciences, and these fuelled his thinking about natural affections and natural sociability. However, he also increasingly … alone, further estranging man from his moral self. Although Coleridge valued the idea of progress through arts and sciences, he also saw the perverse effects of an economic system that privileged material progress to the expense of …