David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793–1843
David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793–1843
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- Barcode: 9781399528573
- Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793–1843
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How did Scottish scientific culture change from the Enlightenment to the Victorian period?
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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