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A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home

A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Hannan, Leonie

Hardcover

Sports GeneralGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1526153033
ISBN13: 9781526153036
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jul 25 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
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.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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