William Prout, M.D., F. R. S., Physician And Chemist (1785-1850)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20315194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W S C Copeman (Google (United States), corresponding author) |
| Editors | Harold Brewer Hartley, Reginald Victor Jones |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273-280 |
| Publication date | 1970-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.1970.0019 |
| PMID | 11609781 |
| OpenAlex | W2169809504 |
| Language | EN |
WILLIAM PROUT was born in a farm which adjoined the small village of Horton in Gloucestershire, where his family had been established for several generations. He proved to be a shining example of that phenomenon of the early nineteenth century, namely, the bright boy of humble origin who was educated by his own exertions and became an outstanding figure in the newly emerging class of semi-professional scientists. Under the denomination of Natural Philosophy they assembled an encyclopaedic understanding of that triad of infant sciences, chemistry, physics and mechanics, upon which, as the result, the Industrial Revolution was largely built
Art · Art history · Chemist · Epistemology · Industrial Revolution · Natural Philosophy · Phenomenon · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Triad (sociology) · Chemistry · Classics · History of Medicine Studies · Law · Organic Chemistry · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |