By Elizabeth Chambers Patterson (auth.)
ISBN-10: 9400968396
ISBN-13: 9789400968394
ISBN-10: 9400968418
ISBN-13: 9789400968417
Among the myriad of adjustments that came about in nice Britain within the first 1/2 the 19th century, lots of specific value to the historian of technology and to the social historian are discernible in that small section of British society drawn jointly through a shared curiosity in normal phenomena and with enough relaxation or chance to enquire and think about them. This staff, which by no means numbered greater than an insignificant handful compared to the complete inhabitants, might rightly be characterised as 'scientific'. They and their successors got here to occupy an more and more vital position within the highbrow, academic, and constructing financial lifetime of the country. good prior to the arriving of mid-century, usual philosophers and inventors have been normally hailed as a resource of nationwide satisfaction and of nationwide status. clinical society is a function of nineteenth-century British existence, the easiest being present in London, within the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a couple of scattered provincial centres.
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The great burst of scientific activity from the beginning of the century led, especially from 1820, to the establishment of other specialist societies in the capital and to a good number of provincial bodies. Mary Somerville found her principal scientific associates among men who had taken an early part in this development in organized science. Venturesome enough to strike out in these new directions, they were venturesome enough also to applaud a woman's interest in science. The philosophers who pressed for the foundation of new specialist societies were for the most part men who were gradually reassessing their own roles IN THE MAINSTREAM OF LONDON SCIENCE 37 and the role of science itself.
Marcet, with whom my husband had already been acquainted in London [and] I, for the first time, met Mrs. Marcet. 57 She misremembers on two points: their first meeting had already taken place in London in 1816 and the Marcets were not in Geneva in 1817. Marcet returned to his native home in mid-June 1818 for the first time since his exile 24 years earlier and brought his wife with him to visit family and friends he had left behind. 58 Doubtless the Somervilles and the Marcets did meet in Switzerland in 1818 and doubtless also Mrs.
Desirous' ... that so useful an Instrument should ... find its way to England' , he orders one of Amici's new microscopes and requests guidance as to its use, then mentions that Kater has lately reported to the Royal Society (to which Somerville had been elected a Fellow on 11 December 1817) THE FIRST TRIP ABROAD 31 important work on ascertaining the figure of the earth with his pendulum. Clearly the Somervilles intended to maintain and utilize the ties established by them on their Continental tour.
Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840 by Elizabeth Chambers Patterson (auth.)
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