Hi Erinma

great topic

Mine is too long for a tweet alas - even with the new character length

I'm fascinated by the period between 1800 and 1835 when there was the culture shift and the opening up of the great schism

So here is the chronology of these key moments..

in 1800 the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Humphry Davy were merrily inhaling nitrous oxide together... Davy was writing as much poetry as his friend, and there was a spirit of revolution and optimism in the air.. France standing at the top of golden hours and human nature seeming born again - Wordsworth

Coleridge and Wordsworth had asked Davy to proof read the preface of the Lyrical Ballads (1798)

In 1801, Coleridge attended the lecture by Davy at the RI into galvanism

there appeared to be a mutual respect for natural philosophy.. the arts of poetry and science seemed bound by the spirit of discovery both in the laboratory and in the new freer forms of literature

but over the course of the early 1800s their friendship cooled and they fell out..

A personal story I accept - but there were other shifts of perspective that indicated the beginnings of a bigger seismic movement

Wordsworth had already declared his pantheistic creed - one impulse from the vernal wood.. etc in the Lyrical Ballads

The younger Romantic poets like Keats and Shelley were less enamoured by the influence of scientific discovery..

by 1820, the poets were critical of the kind of rational thinking that science experiments required..

so, famously, and as quoted by Dawkins, Keats wrote in Lamia, 1820:

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings..

And by 1829 Edgar Allan Poe was even more forcefully declamatory in his sonnet speaking directly 'To Science'

'Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?'

At the same time, and almost in retaliation (?) the natural philosophers, the cultivators of science, took up the term 'Scientist' for the first time - in an opposition as stark as astronomical bodies..
(1834)...

And from that time onwards...

cheers and all the best

Rick

On 4 October 2017 at 09:06, Erinma <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi there,

We're asking and discussing with our #scicomm masters students this week what key moments in the history, politics and future of #scicomm might be...

We had the Bodmer report from Sam Illingworth - what would yours be...?

Feel free to tweet your moment @scicomsalford my key #scicommhistory moment is... (and the year) plus a weblink if there is one.

We'd would love to hear from diverse and unusual perspectives - thinking from the public and scientific perspective or somewhere in between...

We'll share the timeline back... and hopefully start a debate about it...

All best,

Erinma

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