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The Royal Institution Music Lectures, 1800–1831: A Preliminary Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jamie Croy Kassler
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Studies of the Royal Institution have focused on science, as the term was defined from about the 1840s onwards, and on the institutionalization of science so defined. They exhibit a particular assumption that, until recent years, has dominated the historiography of science and that still is apparent in the latest study of the Royal Institution by Morris Berman (1978). Berman's aim is to demonstrate ‘the process by which technical reason became (as Michel Foucault would say) the prose of our world’ (p. xxv). Thus, according to Berman, what the chemist, Humphry Davy, stood for ‘ultimately made a greater difference for the history of science than what he accomplished with the voltaic pile, for he paved the way for a society in which the “social construction of reality” proceeded along scientific lines’ (p. xxv).

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Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle , Volume 19 , 1985 , pp. 1 - 30
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1985

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