{"product_id":"science-as-public-culture-chemistry-and-enlightenment-in-britain-1760-1820-hardback-9780521394147","title":"Science as Public Culture; Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 (Hardback) 9780521394147","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScience as Public Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the development of chemistry in Britain 1760–1820 and relates it to civic life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJan Golinski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521394147, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 April 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.7 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...an important contribution to our understanding of how science functions as a part of society.\"   Hugh L. Guilderson, Journal of Social History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eScience as Public Culture joins a growing number of studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from 1760 to 1820, and relates it to the rise and subsequent eclipse of forms of civic life characteristic of the European Enlightenment. Within this framework the careers of prominent chemists like William Cullen, Joseph Black, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Beddoes, and Humphry Davy are interpreted in a different light. The major discoveries of the time, including nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and the electrical decomposition of water, are set against the background of alternative ways of constructing science as a public enterprise. The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between scientific activity and processes of social and political change in a period of great transformations in chemistry and in the conditions of public life.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: science as public culture\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'The study of a gentlemen': chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e 3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightement\u003cbr\u003e 4. Airs and their uses\u003cbr\u003e 5. The coming of the chemical revolution\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Dr Beddoes's Breath': nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry\u003cbr\u003e 7. Humphry Davy: the public face of genius\u003cbr\u003e 8. Analysis, education and the chemical community\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005536915736,"sku":"9780521394147","price":86.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521394147i_d23ef28c-eccf-4b44-b1f2-a3669bf7e41f.jpg?v=1691380921","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/science-as-public-culture-chemistry-and-enlightenment-in-britain-1760-1820-hardback-9780521394147","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}