A 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. 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. -- .

• | Author: Leonie Hannan
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 25, 2023
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781526153036
• | ISBN-10: 1526153033