Culture of Curiosity - Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home

This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of 'domestic life', this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society.

About the author

Leonie Hannan is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History at Queen's University, Belfast

Summary

This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of ‘domestic life’, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Leonie Hannan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781526153036
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5303-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800