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Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England - Couverture souple

Elliot, Paul A.

 
9781350165991: Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England

Synopsis

Provides the first full length study of the geographies of Georgian scientific culture in England. The author takes the reader on a tour of the principal arenas in which scientific ideas were disseminated, including home, town and countryside, to show how cultures of science and knowledge varied across the Georgian landscape.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul A. Elliott is Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities, University of Derby. He is also a Special Lecturer at Nottingham University. His research interests include historical and cultural geography, history of science, landscape history, history of education, and urban and regional history. His most recent book is The Derby Philosophers (2009).

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