Science As Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 Book

	Acknowledgments
	List of illustrations
1	Introduction: Science as public culture	1
2	"The study of a gentleman": Chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment	11
	Chemistry as an academic discipline	13
	Gentlemanly science in the public realm	25
	The social construction of the Scottish program	37
3	Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightenment	50
	The uses of chemistry in Enlightenment England	52
	Making connections: Priestley's career	63
	The experimenter and the writer	77
4	Airs and their uses	91
	Priestley's chemistry in public education	93
	The birth of pneumatic medicine	105
	The analysis of air	117
5	The coming of the Chemical Revolution	129
	Lavoisier's theory and its reception in Britain	130
	The instruments of persuasion	137
	Demonstration, authority, and community	145
6	"Dr. Beddoes's Breath": Nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry	153
	The Pneumatic Institution	157
	Enthusiastic respirations: The nitrous oxide incident	166
	The end of Enlightenment science?	176
7	Humphry Davy: The public face of genius	188
	Davy's career: The creation of a public audience	190
	The voltaic pile: The making of an instrument	203
	Chlorine and "the lever of experiment"	218
8	Analysis, education, and the chemical community	236
	Specialist careers in the London chemical community	238
	The identity of the discipline and the reception of Dalton's atomic theory	255
	Mineralogy and the development of chemical analysis	269
	Conclusion: Discipline-formation and public science	283
	Bibliography	289
	Index	323