THE DEVELOPMENTS OF ENGLISH SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC POPULARIZATION BETWEEN 1700 AND 1800
THE DEVELOPMENTS OF ENGLISH SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC POPULARIZATION BETWEEN 1700 AND 1800

Author(s): Arcangelo Rossi
Subject(s): History, History of ideas, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: History of physics; English Science XVIIIth–XIXth Centuries; Scientific Popularization XVIIIth–XIXth Centuries;
Summary/Abstract: In the climate of the late XVIIIth century’s industrial revolution a new opening took place in England towards scientific education and popularization. This opening can be fully understood only by paying attention to the whole dynamics of the connected social and cultural changes concerning, in particular,the relationships between science and technique. Here I focus the most essential of those changes marking the transition from the XVIIIth century’s natural philosophy to the XIXth century’s English science and technology, accompanied by the development of a scientific popularization also linked to immediateproductive interests in an almost consolidated bourgeois society.

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