Book ID: CBB794527095

A culture of curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home (2023)

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Leonie Hannan (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 272
Language: English

This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry.

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Authors & Contributors
Boantza, Victor D.
Fix, Adam
Rodrigues, Ana Duarte
Ruben E. Verwaal
Julie De Groot
Régine Fabri
Concepts
Material culture
Experiments and experimentation
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Methodology of science; scientific method
Science and culture
Popularization
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
19th century
16th century
Renaissance
Places
Germany
Polynesia
England
West Africa
Netherlands
North America
Institutions
Göttingen. Universität
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