The United Kingdom

David Edgerton; John V  Pickstone

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The United Kingdom

David Edgerton, John V Pickstone

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The territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland, as it now is, has been the site of major scientific endeavors from the seventeenth century to the present, as is evident from any history of science. Indeed with the great expansion of Anglophone historiography of science since the 1970s, British cases, for the period 1750 to 1914 especially, were central to general arguments about the nature of science, situated in very local contexts but speaking to global concerns. In contrast, national modes of writing long suggested systematic deficits in British science. In the 1820s, Charles Babbage reflected on the “decline of science” compared to Continental Europe, and later in the century scientific campaigns relied on exaggerated contrasts with other nations, especially Germany.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge History of Science
Subtitle of host publication	Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
Editors	Hugh Richard Slotten, Ronald L. Numbers, David N. Livingstone
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	11
Pages	151-191
Number of pages	41
Volume	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781139044301, 9781108850919
ISBN (Print)	9780521580816
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139044301.012
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020

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Name	Cambridge History of Science
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Volume	8

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United Kingdom

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The United Kingdom. / Edgerton, David; Pickstone, John V .
The Cambridge History of Science: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context . ed. / Hugh Richard Slotten; Ronald L. Numbers; David N. Livingstone. Vol. 8 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. p. 151-191 (Cambridge History of Science; Vol. 8).

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