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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science > Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain
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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Alex Broadbent. ‘To many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a Dumpling’ – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1838). The use of familiar objects as both physical didactic devices and literary pedagogic analogies was particularly prevalent and powerful in nineteenth-century science education. Candles and cups of tea, pebbles and primroses, salt and see-saws were recruited to explain and entertain, as everyday science was placed at the heart of Victorian domestic life. In this talk I shall introduce the aims and artefacts of ‘familiar science’, exploring how the quotidian world of commonplace artefacts was used to communicate facts and phenomena – in short, how learning things was achieved through learning with things. This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series. This talk is included in these lists:
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