History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 11 (2/22/00)

 

Topics   Infrastructure for popular scientific interest Provincial clubs and circles Middle-class homes Popular scientific materials Formal education Primary and secondary education Tertiary education Classical universities Diversifying institutions Adult education Positivism Mesmerism

Names and terms   Lunar Society of Birmingham  Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley  Oxbridge (= Oxford + Cambridge) research imperative  grandes Ecoles (e.g., the Ecole polytechnique) redbrick universities  Dissenters  Mechanics' Institutes  lyceum  positivism  Henri de Saint-Simon  Auguste Comte  Franz Anton Mesmer

 
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