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Soho House in Handsworth, Birmingham, a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society. The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham.
Pages in category "Members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Edgeworth was a member of the Lunar Society, an informal organisation of Birmingham-based industrialists, scientists and intellectuals that met regularly to discuss and share ideas relating to their fields of interest. Other members included Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and James Watt.
The Lunar Society was a discussion club, of a number of prominent industrialists and scientists, ... Members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham (15 P)
James Keir FRS (20 September 1735 – 11 October 1820) was a Scottish chemist, geologist, industrialist, and inventor, and an important member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. Life and work [ edit ]
In 1786, Whitehurst was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. [6] In 1787, age 74, a year before his death, he published An Attempt towards obtaining invariable Measures of Length, Capacity, and Weight, from the Mensuration of Time (London). Whitehurst wanted to study the shape of the earth by measuring differences in ...
Samuel Galton joined the Lunar Society in December of 1785. [10] Galton would join the Lunar Society as an in-person replacement for Erasmus Darwin, who remarried and moved away. [11] He would be one of the fourteen members to be active during the height of the society. [11]
See also Category:Members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. Pages in category "Associates of the Lunar Society of Birmingham"