A culture of curiosity science in the eighteenth-century home

Introduction: cultures of enquiry in the eighteenth-century British worldPart I1 Household materials and networked space 2 Tacit knowledge and keeping a recordPart II3 Collecting4 Observing5 ExperimentingPart III6 Personal experience and authority7 Re-examining the culture of enquiryBibliographyInde...

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1. Verfasser: Hannan, Leonie (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: cultures of enquiry in the eighteenth-century British worldPart I1 Household materials and networked space 2 Tacit knowledge and keeping a recordPart II3 Collecting4 Observing5 ExperimentingPart III6 Personal experience and authority7 Re-examining the culture of enquiryBibliographyIndex
This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of domestic life , this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society
Beschreibung:ix, 262 Seiten
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ISBN:9781526153036
978-1-5261-5303-6