Metropolitan Science
Wednesday 19th February, 2025.
5:30pm – 7:00pm.
The London Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB.
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£5.
London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, 1600-1800.
Part of the Students and Early Career Researchers collection
A talk by Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin with Noah Moxham
Metropolitan Science provides a new perspective on what is often known as the Scientific Revolution, involving significant changes to understanding and exploitation of the natural world in the late 16th to 18th centuries. Rather than focusing on famous philosophers or learned societies, it argues that institutions associated with commerce and trade, as well as city and national government, created unique environments for the production, testing and use of knowledge. In London, a growing centre of industry and empire, such institutional sites brought together a wide and productive range of people, projects and materials that made them both creators and users of new knowledge and practices.
