A culture of curiosity : science in the eighteenth-century home /
This study<i> </i>explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of sc...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I
- 2 Household materials and networked space
- 3 Tacit knowledge and keeping a record
- Part II
- 4 Collecting
- 5 Observing
- 6 Experimenting
- Part III
- 7 Personal experience and authority
- 8 Re-examining the culture of enquiry
- Bibliography
- Index