
Published online:
21 March 2013
Published in print:
15 July 2011
Online ISBN:
9780226487298
Print ISBN:
9780226487267
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Platform Science and the Geography of Speech Platform Science and the Geography of Speech
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution
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Skepticism, Sectarianism, and Scientific Speech Skepticism, Sectarianism, and Scientific Speech
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Science and Theological Poetics: The 1850s Science and Theological Poetics: The 1850s
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Creedless Science and Moral Culture: The 1860s Creedless Science and Moral Culture: The 1860s
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
Seven Placing Science in an Age of Oratory: Spaces of Scientific Speech in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh
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Finnegan, Diarmid A. (ed.), 'Placing Science in an Age of Oratory: Spaces of Scientific Speech in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh', in David N. Livingstone, and Charles W. J. Withers (eds), Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science (Chicago, IL , 2011; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 21 Mar. 2013), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226487298.003.0007, accessed 5 May 2025.
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Finnegan, Diarmid A. (ed.). "Placing Science in an Age of Oratory: Spaces of Scientific Speech in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh." In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science. Edited by David N. Livingstone, and Charles W. J. Withers (eds). University of Chicago Press, 2011. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226487298.003.0007.
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of the Music Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland as the scientific speech venue of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. It discusses the role of speeches in spreading scientific knowledge and explains that speeches at the Music Hall were regulated to ensure that science was delivered appropriately. This chapter also shows that not every speaker at the Music Hall illuminated science's mysteries through verbal artistry and those that did were sometimes received and interpreted in different ways.
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