Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century: The Hardwicke Circle and the Royal Society, 1740-1766

by Markman Ellis

Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century studies the reading habits of a group of historians and science administrators known as the Hardwicke Circle. The research is based on an analysis of the reading recorded in the 'Weekly Letter', an unpublished private correspondence written from 1741 to 1766 between Thomas Birch (1705-1766), Secretary of the Royal Society, and Philip Yorke (1720-1790), later second earl of Hardwicke. Birch and Yorke were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009217208
• ISBN13: 9781009217200
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"