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Sorrenson, Richard John.

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Scientific instrument makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Scientific instrument makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780./
作者:	Sorrenson, Richard John.
面頁冊數:	292 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3860.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-10A.
標題:	History of Science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9407092

Scientific instrument makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780.
Sorrenson, Richard John.

Scientific instrument makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780. - 292 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3860.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1993.

In eighteenth century London, an elite group of instrument makers made significant contributions to English science, commerce, naval power, and, as I argue in this dissertation, the Royal Society of London. Their use of experimental natural philosophy to design and test their instruments, their subtle application of trial and error, their understanding of the behaviour of materials, and their search for increasing accuracy fitted well with the empirical, Baconian nature of English science in the eighteenth century, while their prosperity, reputation, science, and art qualified them for the Royal Society. They were among the most important practitioners of English science in their day, and their activity is evidence for the Society's vitality in the eighteenth century. As I demonstrate, a unique confluence of intellectual, economic, and social conditions, both within the London instrument making trade and at the Royal Society itself, made it possible for these men to belong to the Society and to make acknowledged contributions to British science, rather than to languish, like instrument makers in other times and places, as silent technicians.Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

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520 $a In eighteenth century London, an elite group of instrument makers made significant contributions to English science, commerce, naval power, and, as I argue in this dissertation, the Royal Society of London. Their use of experimental natural philosophy to design and test their instruments, their subtle application of trial and error, their understanding of the behaviour of materials, and their search for increasing accuracy fitted well with the empirical, Baconian nature of English science in the eighteenth century, while their prosperity, reputation, science, and art qualified them for the Royal Society. They were among the most important practitioners of English science in their day, and their activity is evidence for the Society's vitality in the eighteenth century. As I demonstrate, a unique confluence of intellectual, economic, and social conditions, both within the London instrument making trade and at the Royal Society itself, made it possible for these men to belong to the Society and to make acknowledged contributions to British science, rather than to languish, like instrument makers in other times and places, as silent technicians.
520 $a In Chapters 1 and 2, I investigate the kinds and styles of science that were practised at the Society during the eighteenth century, and in Chapter 3, I examine the Society's membership patterns and review the classes of people who were allowed to belong. Together, these three chapters trace the specific intellectual and social factors that favoured the instrument makers' unprecedented success as highly-regarded members of the Royal Society. Chapter 4 moves from intellectual and social preconditions to economic ones, discussing the instrument making trade and its growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. That trade and the Royal Society nurtured three outstanding instrument makers--George Graham, John Dollond and Jesse Ramsden--whose scientific careers I delineate in Chapters 5, 6 and 7 respectively.
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