Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion

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Jan Golinski discusses how early 19th century popular science lecturers evoked the discourse of the sublime, thereby continuing to advance Enlightenment claims about progress in human reason and culture, despite the rise of conservative Regency values. Professor Golinski has taught at the University of Lancaster, at Churchill College, Cambridge University, and at Princeton University. His research interests include the history of chemistry, problems of method in the history of science, and the social history of science in Britain in the long eighteenth century.

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