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Science in the Public Sphere - Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800-1860 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Science in the Public Sphere - Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800-1860 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the
nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as 'natural
knowledge' - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century.
This was the period before major state support for science allowed
its professionalization; indeed, it was a time in which the word
'scientist' (although coined in 1833 by William Whewell) was not
yet widely used. In this context, the questions about the nature of
science were part of a public debate that included the following
topics: scientific method and intellectual authority, the moral
demeanour of the man of science, the hierarchy of specialised
scientific disciplines, and the relation with natural theology.
These topics were discussed both within scientific circles - in
correspondence and meeting of societies - as well as in the wider
public sphere constituted by quarterly journals and encyclopaedias.
A study of these debates allow us to see how British science of
this period began to cast loose some of its earlier theological
supports, but still relied on a moral framework to affirm its
distinctive method, ethos and cultural value.
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