Experiencing Coal and Embodying Mineralogy: Science and Industry in South Yorkshire, c. 1760-1860

本项目将还原煤炭作为一种自然物质的历史代理，探索工业革命时期南约克郡煤炭与矿工之间的实际、感官和体现关系。就科学史家研究工业行为者的科学知识而言，他们关注的是自然哲学家的牛顿力学和工业家的技术创新。通过关注矿工对煤炭的“情感知识”，这种方法关注了迄今为止被忽视的一种知识，这种知识对工业革命做出了贡献。

This project will restore the historical agency of coal as a natural substance, and explore the practical, sensory and embodied relationship between coal and coalminers in South Yorkshire during the industrial revolution. Insofar as historians of science have studied the scientific knowledge of industrial actors, they have focused on the Newtonian mechanics of natural philosophers and the technological innovation of industrialists. By focusing on the 'affective knowledge' of coal that miners possessed, this approach pays attention to a hitherto overlooked type of knowledge that contributed to the industrial revolution.