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A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun, by Joseph Wright of Derby. The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment [1] or the Birmingham Enlightenment, [2] was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands ...
Schofield, Robert E. (1963), The Lunar Society of Birmingham : a social history of provincial science and industry in eighteenth-century England, Oxford: Clarendon Press Schofield, Robert E. (December 1966), "The Lunar Society of Birmingham; A Bicentenary Appraisal", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , 21 (2): 144– 161, doi ...
There he became an influential mentor of Thomas Jefferson, who went on to be a leading proponent of the American Revolution, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. From 1765, Small was an influential medical doctor in Birmingham, England, where he was a member of the Lunar Society.
Soho House (middle building); rear view with side buildings, as seen from today's access road. Soho House is a museum run by Birmingham Museums Trust, celebrating Matthew Boulton's life, his partnership with James Watt, his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham and his contribution to the Midlands Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
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 ...
Stokes had dedicated his thesis on oxygen to Withering [1] and became a member with him of the Lunar Society from 1783 to 1788. [ 2 ] Stokes contributed to Withering's An Account of the Foxglove and its Medical Uses (1785), writing a preface on the history of digitalis and providing details of six clinical trials on patients he had treated for ...
Great Barr Hall is an 18th-century mansion situated in the Great Barr district of Pheasey, Walsall, West Midlands, England. It has associations with the Lunar Society and is a Grade II listed building. [1] It is, however, in a very poor state of repair and is on the Buildings at Risk Register.
The full moon in the picture is significant as meetings of the Lunar Circle (renamed the Lunar Society by 1775) were timed to make use of its light when travelling.. Wright met Erasmus Darwin in the early 1760s, probably through their common connection of John Whitehurst, first consulting Darwin about ill health in 1767 when he stayed in the Darwin household for a week. [8]