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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2013
      24 May 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139207621
      9781108047463
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207621
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      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.81kg, 510 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Education
      Subjects:
      Social and Population History, History, Education, Education, History, Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Education
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    Social and Population History, History, Education, Education, History, Theory
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    The scientist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford, was known for his significant mechanical inventions. He was a Member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, where he exchanged ideas with other scientists, including James Watt. However, Edgeworth was also greatly interested in education: drawing on his own experiences of raising twenty children (by his four wives), in 1788 he published, with his daughter, the poet Maria Edgeworth, his famous two-volume Practical Education (also reissued in this series). The work was very influential, and led to this book, published in 1809, a series of essays on professional education (again written in co-operation with Maria), dealing with the nature of different occupations in a state. He discusses education for the professions, including the Church, the Army and the Law, but also refers to the education of statesmen, gentlemen and even princes.

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