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A new Lunar Society [47] was formed in Birmingham by a group led by Dame Rachel Waterhouse. Its aim was to play a leading part in the development of the city and the wider region. [48] Clive Stone was elected as Chair of the Lunar Society in July 2023. [49] The society was still in operation in 2024. [50] Outside 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, who met regularly in the latter half of the 18th century in Birmingham, England. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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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 ]
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] One reason for his inclusion into the Society was his love for statistics and data and his tendency to compare datasets. [12]
The Lunar Society was instrumental as an intellectual driving force behind England's Industrial Revolution. The members of the Lunar Society, and especially Darwin, opposed the slave trade. [19] He attacked it in The Botanic Garden (1789–1791), and in The Loves of Plants (1789), The Economy of Vegetation (1791), and the Phytologia (1800). [20]