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Author:   Ian Inkster ,  Jack Morrell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780415418041

ISBN 10:   0415418046
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   21 December 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Aspects of the history of science and science culture in Britain, 1780–1850 and beyond, Ian Inkster; Chapter 2 Whigs and savants: reflections on the reform movement in the Royal Society, 1830–48, Roy M. MacLeod; Chapter 3 The London lecturing empire, 1800–50, J. N. Hays; Chapter 4 The British Mineralogical Society: a case study in science and social improvement, Paul Weindling; Chapter 5 ‘Nibbling at the teats of science’: Edinburgh and the diffusion of science in the 1830s, Steven Shapin; Chapter 6 Science in a commercial city: Bristol 1820–60, Michael Neve; Chapter 7 Rational dissent and provincial science: William Turner and the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, Derek Orange; Chapter 8 Economic and ornamental geology: the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1837–53, Jack Morrell; Chapter 9 Medical elites, the general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera epidemic of 1831–2, Michael Durey;

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