Metropolis and province, science in British culture, 1780-1850
edited by Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell
Publisher: London : Hutchinson, 1983.
ISBN: 0091451809
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Ian Inkster -- Whigs and savants / Roy M. MacLeod --
The London lecturing empire, 1800-50 / J.N. Hays -- The British
Mineralogical Society / Paul Weindling -- 'Nibbling at the teats of
science' / Steve Shapin -- Science in a commercial city / Michael
Neve -- Rational dissent and provincial science / Derek Orange --
Economic and ornamental geology / Jack Morrell -- Medical elites, the
general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera
epidemic of 1831-2 / Michael Durey.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: 288 p. ; 23 cm.
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