how one extraordinary society shaped modern science /
Susannah Gibson ; with a foreword by Simon Conway Morris, FRS.
First edition.
Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
xxi, 377 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, map ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-366) and index.
The Fenland Philosophers -- The house on All Saints' Passage -- Letters from the south -- 'A new prosperity' -- The misdeeds of Mr Crouch -- A workbench of one's own -- The laboratory in the library -- 'May it never be of any use to anybody' -- Following the footsteps.
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The increasing interest in science in Great Britain by the establishment of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1819.