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Perfect Mechanics: Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century

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ISBN-10:

0988744929

ISBN-13:

9780988744929

Author(s): Sorrenson, Richard
Released: Jul 14, 2013
Publisher: Docent Press
Format: Paperback, 252 pages
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Perfect Mechanics captures the excitement of Georgian "big science" and the starring roles played by London instrument makers in the scientific expeditions to measure the shape of the earth, to find and map unknown lands in the Pacific, and to explore the heavens. Yet these indispensible practitioners of "mixed mathematics," recognized and honored by the Royal Society through fellowship and the awarding of the Copley Medal, became increasingly marginalized by the gentlemanly FRS after 1800 and the essential tensions between commerce and science, mechanical and craft production, and social classes brought an abrupt halt to this dynamic and inventive period.

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