History & The Arts
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
...with breathtaking speed. His dazzling lectures there would make him the public face of science for the coming generation, and the nitrous oxide experiments would become an emblem of the heroic commitment to discovery that it would demand of its practitioners in the new century. This article was originally published by The Public Domain Review under a CC-BY-SA licence...