Promoting Experimental Learning: Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660-1727

by Marie Boas Hall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892651
• ISBN13: 9780521892650
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"