HPS211H1 Lecture 8: HSP211 Lecture 8.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Course: HPS211H1
• Professor: Pang Cheong

Document Summary

Summary y origin of laboratory y royal patronage. Gentlemen undertaking, scientific society y from private to public y demonstration, performance, electricity y new types of institutions y research teaching laboratory in university. Origin of laboratory y experiment was marginal in aristotelian natural philosophy y only exception: alchemy y laboratory as a room with a furnace for alchemical experiments y new kinds of experiments in scientific revolution: hydraulics, pneumatics, elasticity. Change of laboratories social characters y alchemists laboratory was like artesian workshop y private space, secret knowledge y mechanical philosophy elevated the status of experiments y new social relations associated with laboratory. Patronage of experiment at royal courts y galileo at medici court florence y tyco brache at holy roman imperial court: considered high cultural, entertainment. Gentlemen experiments y robert boyle: leading high end laboratory. Experiment at scientific society y greshman college, royal society of lodon: room dedicated to experimental work, beginning of more public laboratory.