Titlebook: Science and Social Change, 1700-1900; Colin A. Russell Textbook 1983Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1983 culture.development.s

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Nature in the Enlightenment,or shape during most of the eighteenth century. This was reflected in its institutional life (Chapter 5), in the quality and number of published works, and in the diminished status acknowledged to its practitioners by some of their contemporaries. Thus the English physician David Hartley (1705–57),

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Nature and Society,hn Moore (1646–1714), her chaplain and a Canon of Ely. Addressing her ‘on the wisdom and goodness of Providence’ he observed that ‘when God had made the world, he did not leave it to shift for itself, without any farther regard of it. But his power does as truly appear in the preservation and govern

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The Social Organisation of Enlightenment Science,should be enough to convince us of this. Some have argued that few scientific theories are entirely value-free and that the practice of science depends greatly upon the cultural context in which it flourishes or wilts. At the very least social changes will affect the rate of scientific advance (leav

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Science in the Early Industrial Revolution,ng social role. No longer was it to be mainly an ideological weapon in religious or political polemics (though its capacity in this respect was far from exhausted). Nor was it much longer to be a hobby for the rich or a status symbol for social climbers. Its role in society was in fact to change in

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Interlude: Change and Continuity in French Science,ocial changes of the first magnitude. For many years the dominant note in discussions of late eighteenth-century France has been that of discontinuity, though there has been some questioning of that emphasis with a new perception of unbroken threads connecting the Ancien Régime to the Empire.. The r

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,Science for the Masses, 1825–1850,mpleted, very like the theatre in the Andersonian Institution, Glasgow, from whence had lately come the Royal Institution’s first professor, Thomas Garnett. It was, however, the brain-child of the Clerk of Works, Thomas Webster (or so he claimed). Aware of the spirit of philanthropy in which the Roy

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The Rise of the Specialist,ve referred to it. Yet he objected to a word ‘both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never be able to use it’. The excessively sibilant word complained of, with the ‘equivalent of three separate sounds of S’, was ‘physicist’.. His correspondent William Whewell, soon to become Mast

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