Charles Hutton and the ‘Dissensions’ of 1783–84: scientific networking and its failures

IF 0.4 3区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science Pub Date : 2017-03-20 DOI:10.1098/rsnr.2016.0016

B. Wardhaugh

引用次数: 11

Abstract

This paper proposes a fresh look at the ‘Dissensions’ that held up scientific business at the Royal Society during the spring of 1784. It focuses attention on the career and personal networks of Charles Hutton, whose dismissal from the role of Foreign Secretary ignited the row. It shows that the incident had no single cause but was the outcome of several factors that made Hutton intolerable to Joseph Banks, President of the Society, and of several factors that made Banks unpopular as President among a group of about 40 otherwise rather disparate Fellows.

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查尔斯·赫顿和1783-84年的“分歧”:科学网络及其失败

本文对1784年春季阻碍英国皇家学会科学业务的“分歧”提出了新的看法。它将注意力集中在查尔斯·赫顿的职业和个人网络上，他被解除外交大臣的职务引发了争议。它表明，这起事件没有单一的原因，而是几个因素的结果，这些因素使赫顿对协会主席约瑟夫·班克斯无法容忍，也有几个因素使班克斯在大约40名不同的研究员中不受欢迎。

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Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学

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