Promoting Experimental Learning: Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660–1727
ISBN-13:
9780521405034
ISBN-10:
0521405033
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Marie Boas Hall
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Reference
,
History & Philosophy
,
History of Technology
,
Technology
,
Engineering
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ISBN-13:
9780521405034
ISBN-10:
0521405033
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Marie Boas Hall
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Reference
,
History & Philosophy
,
History of Technology
,
Technology
,
Engineering
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Promoting Experimental Learning: Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660–1727 (ISBN-13: 9780521405034 and ISBN-10: 0521405033), written by authors
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The Royal Society of London, effectively Britain's national academy of science, has been particularly concerned with experimental science. Despite all that has been written in the past decades about the first half-century of the Royal Society's existence, no one has yet examined what took place at the society's weekly meetings or how far these meetings fulfilled the expressed aim of promoting "experimental learning." Aware that Hooke performed many experiments at meetings between 1662 and 1703, students of the early Royal Society have often believed its aim to be fully expressed in the writings of such members as Boyle, Hooke, and Newton. This study attempts to analyze the content of the meetings in detail and to discover how far and in what manner the aims of the Society were fulfilled in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Also discussed are the reactions of foreigners and outsiders to the Royal Society, and how the Society was altered from 1660 to 1727, the year Newton, the Royal Society's president, died. This book should be of interest to historians of science and physicists alike.
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