This term the Science and Literature Reading Group takes to the air, as we continue our series of meetings exploring the elements. We will focus on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century pneumatics, from eudiometry to aeronautics, considering how air was philosophised, exploited, and consumed.
Meetings take place on Monday evenings at Darwin College from 7.30-9pm. Please note that this term we will be meeting in the ground floor seminar room of 1 Newnham Terrace. All are welcome to join in our wide-ranging and friendly discussions!
The group is organised by Melanie Keene and Charissa Varma. For recaps, further readings, news, and other updates, please visit our blog: https://sci-lit-reading-group.blogspot.co.uk/. We have also recently joined twitter: you can follow us @scilitreadgrp.
6th February: Atmosphere
- Joseph Priestley, ‘Of Dephlogisticated Air, and of the constitution of the Atmosphere’, from Observations on Various Kinds of Air (1776 2nd edn), Vol. II, 29-61.
20th February: Breath
- Richard Polwhele, ‘The Pneumatic Revellers; An Eclogue’, in Poems (1810), Vol. V, iii-viii and 1-17.
13th March: Flight
- Thomas Baldwin, Airopaidia (1786), as much as you’d like of 1-164 (‘The Excursion throu’ the Air’), especially 1-14, 29-59, 94-97.
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