David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793-1843

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Dr Bill Jenkins is a lecturer in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, working on a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled 'After the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, c.1790-c.1843'. Jenkins received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh has published several papers in key journals, including the Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and British Journal for the History of Science. He is the author of Evolution Before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804-1834 (EUP, 2019).

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How did Scottish scientific culture change from the Enlightenment to the Victorian period?