Labels:bulletin board | person | reckoner | sky OCR: Lunar Society: An informal semiofficia. arganization created t further know ledge of light meteorology and geology The Lunar Society met ir Birmingham England beginning in the 1760s. promoted the sciences manu- factures and ars of the Industrial Revolution Its name originated from the that the society me on the Mon day closest to the full moon, purportedly s the members could find their way home night before the advent f street lighting The saciety embraced community f provi incial manufacturers and professionals who contrib- uted to the transformation f England from rural saciety with ar agricultural economy ta an urban and industrial ane The original members included Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin and William Small (Thomas Jefferson's prafessar of natural history) James Watt, John Flaxm ...