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
Haveman, Heather A.
James, Frank
Durrell, Sue
Stoeger, Alexander
Nicholson, William, Jr.
Concepts
Publishers and publishing
Periodicals; serials
Science and society
Popularization
Communication within scientific contexts
Communication of scientific ideas
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Italy
Europe
England
United States
India
Institutions
School of Milan
Macmillan
Royal Society of London
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