← Departments
Lunar Society of Birmingham
The steam engine, oxygen, evolution, abolition — one table of friends.
The Lunar Men
Converse with
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Simulacrum
Social Contract · Amour de Soi vs Amour Propre · Émile · Natural Education · Geneva · Inequality
18th century
Converse with
John Whitehurst Simulacrum
Precision Clockmaking · Geology · Strata · Pyrometer · Enquiry into the Earth · Natural Philosophy
18th century
Converse with
Matthew Boulton Simulacrum
Soho Manufactory · Scale as Art Form · Idea Made Real Through Manufacture · Quality as Reputation
18th–19th century
Converse with
Josiah Wedgwood Simulacrum
Jasperware · The Industrialisation of Taste · The Kiln as Laboratory · Process Innovation · Abolition
18th century
Converse with
Joseph Priestley Simulacrum
Oxygen · Dissent as Method · Electricity · The Experiment Dissolves Authority · Unitarianism
18th–19th century
Converse with
James Keir Simulacrum
Industrial Chemistry · Glass Manufacturing · Soap · Dictionary of Chemistry · Laboratory to Factory · Tipton Works
18th–19th century
Converse with
James Watt Simulacrum
Steam Engine · Separate Condenser · Horsepower · The Efficiency of Waste · Industrial Revolution
18th–19th century
Converse with
William Withering Simulacrum
Digitalis · Foxglove · Dropsy · Clinical Method · Systematic Arrangement of British Plants · Medical Botany
18th century
Converse with
Thomas Day Simulacrum
Sandford and Merton · Abolitionism · Rousseau’s Émile Operationalised · Radical Education · The Formation of Character
18th century
Intellectual Context