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The decades between the French Revolution and the mid-nineteenth century were a period of radical transformation in Scottish society and culture on many levels. The Scottish Enlightenment had seen a striking blossoming of the natural sciences, with the development of a distinctive and influential national scientific culture.
The natural philosopher David Brewster was educated in Edinburgh amidst the intellectual ferment of the late Enlightenment but lived to end his days as a grand old man of Victorian science. This book uses the long and eventful career of Brewster as a lens through which to explore themes of rupture and continuity in Scottish scientific culture in a period of dramatic social and political change.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I: SCIENCE IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND
Chapter 2. Politics and patronage: Science in an age of revolution, reaction and reform
Chapter 3. Science and religion between Enlightenment and Disruption
Chapter 4. The philosophy of science
PART II: BUILDING A LIFE IN SCOTTISH SCIENCE
Chapter 5. Scientific book and periodical publishing in Scotland
Chapter 6. Scientific societies and associations
Chapter 7. Scientific education in Scotland: Natural philosophy and the 'democratic intellect'
Chapter 8. Conclusion
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