Article ID: CBB624414670

Turning Tradition into an Instrument of Research: The Editorship of William Nicholson (1753–1815) (2020)

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Mainly known for its links to the periodical market and radical politics, this article recontextualizes the editorship of William Nicholson (1753–1815) in terms of its roots in the metropolitan natural philosophical circles of the second half of the 18th century as well as its impact on experimenters and men of science after 1797. The article argues that Nicholson's editorship of the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts was a means to expand his philosophical significance among natural philosophers at home and abroad—and was, in fact, a form of epistemological subversion that challenged the “Banksian Learned Empire.”

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Authors & Contributors
Gielas, Anna
Minárik, Marek
Haveman, Heather A.
James, Frank
Durrell, Sue
Stoeger, Alexander
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Indian Journal of History of Science
Historia Mathematica
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Peter Owen Publishers
Princeton University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
l'Harmattan, Impr. Corlet
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Brill
Concepts
Publishers and publishing
Periodicals; serials
Science and society
Popularization
Communication within scientific contexts
Communication of scientific ideas
People
Nicholson, William
Ainsworth, William
Carlisle, Anthony
Gautherot, Nicolas
Henry H. Cheek
Jameson, Robert
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
Europe
India
Edinburgh
Institutions
Macmillan
Royal Society of London
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