Derby Philosophical Society

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The Derby Philosophical Society was an 18th-century scientific and intellectual society in Derby, England, whose members included prominent figures of the Industrial Revolution such as clockmaker and scientist John Whitehurst.

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Derby Philosophers 1
Derby Philosophical Society canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf learned society
philosophical society
scientific society
activeInCentury 18th century
country Kingdom of Great Britain
fieldOfWork astronomy
chemistry
geology
industrial technology
mechanics
medicine
natural philosophy
science
hasMember Charles Sylvester
Erasmus Darwin
Herbert Spencer
John Farey Sr.
John Flamsteed (posthumous influence)
John Henson
John Whitehurst
Josiah Wedgwood I
surface form: Josiah Wedgwood

Michael Jessop
Peter Crompton
Richard French
Robert Darwin
Samuel Fox
Samuel Shore
Thomas Gisborne
William Brooks Johnson
William Duesbury
William George Spencer
William Strutt
William Strutt (Derby Infirmary designer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary architect)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary designer)
William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary engineer)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary experimenter)

William Strutt (hospital designer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital architect)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary designer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital designer)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital engineer)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital experimenter)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital inventor)

William Strutt (philanthropist)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital philanthropist)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary hospital scientist)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
William Strutt (philanthropist)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary philanthropist)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby Infirmary scientist)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary designer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby architect)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby engineer)

William Strutt (engineer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby experimenter)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary designer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby hospital designer)

William Strutt
surface form: William Strutt (Derby industrialist)

William Strutt (engineer)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby inventor)

William Strutt (philanthropist)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby philanthropist)

William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (Derby scientist)

William Strutt (architectural innovator)
William Strutt (engineer)
William Strutt (hospital designer)
William Strutt (Derby Infirmary inventor)
surface form: William Strutt (inventor)

William Strutt (philanthropist)
William Strutt (physician)
William Strutt (physician)
surface form: William Strutt (scientific experimenter)

William Strutt (textile manufacturer)
William Woollatt
inception 1783
locatedIn Derby
Derbyshire
England
United Kingdom

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John Whitehurst associatedWith Derby Philosophical Society
Midlands Enlightenment associatedWith Derby Philosophical Society
this entity surface form: Derby Philosophers