George Berg (1730-1775)

George Berg and the Society of Arts.

Interest, Improvement and the Meaning of a Practical Engagement

A link to the write up of a talk from 2006.

I would call this juvenalia but I was probably in my 50s when I wrote it. It is juvenalia in the sense that it was my first effort to make a more-or-less serious essay available publicly with few or no strings.

I will write more about why I wrote this and what I now think of it, 15 years after the essay “went live,” and a few months before The Creation of Color in 18th Century Europe became freely available. Later.

18th century, chemistry, color, experiments, George Berg, Germans in Georgan London, glass-making, harpsichord, London, musician, organ, Royal Society of Arts, St-Mary’s at Hill, violin, William Lewis
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