Metropolis and province, science in British culture, 1780-1850
By: Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell, editors.
Contributors: Inkster, Ian.; Morrell, Jack.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Ian Inkster; value: Whigs and savants / Roy M. MacLeod; value: The London lecturing empire, 1800-50 / J.N. Hays; value: The British Mineralogical Society / Paul Weindling; value: 'Nibbling at the teats of science' / Steve Shapin; value: Science in a commercial city / Michael Neve; value: Rational dissent and provincial science / Derek Orange; value: Economic and ornamental geology / Jack Morrell; value: Medical elites, the general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera epidemic of 1831-2 / Michael Durey.