Wissenschaft in Worstedopolis: Public Science in Bradford, 1800–1850

British Journal for the History of Science 18 (1):1-23 (1985)
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I take as my text today an epistle of John—John Phillips writing from Birmingham in 1839: ‘in quieter towns like … York … peace, good order, [and] leisure favour the expansion of a philosophical spirit’

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