David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793 1843

Bill Jenkins

David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793 1843
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
11 March 2025
Pages
248
ISBN
9781399528566

David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793 1843

Bill Jenkins

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.

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