The Derby Philosophers

Science and Culture in British Urban Society, 1700–1850

Paul A. Elliott, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
28 August 2009

History of ideas; History of science

The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev. Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, Charles Sylvester the chemist and engineer, William George and his son Herbert Spencer, the internationally renowned evolutionist philosopher who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', and members of the Wedgwood and Strutt families.

The book explores how, inspired by science and through educational activities, publications and institutions including the famous Derbyshire General Infirmary (1810) and Derby Arboretum (1840), the Derby philosophers strove to promote social, political and urban improvements with national and international consequences. Much more than a parochial history of one intellectual group or town, this book examines science, politics and culture during one of the most turbulent periods of British history, an age of political and industrial revolutions in which the Derby philosophers were closely involved.

By: Paul A. Elliott
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 649g
ISBN: 9780719079221
ISBN 10: 0719079225
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 28 August 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Elliott is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Derby.

Reviews for The Derby Philosophers: Science and Culture in British Urban Society, 1700–1850

‘An important and compelling account of the public culture of science in Georgian and Victorian Derby.’ Dr Tristram Hunt, Urban History, 37 (2010), 189-91 ‘[Elliott has] made significant contributions toward the historical recovery of that lost world of enlightened science in the English provinces.’ Jan Golinski, Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire, USA, Reviews in History, (1 June 2010), Institute of Historical Research -- .