books.google.co.uk - The seventeenth century witnessed the rise of many new forms of scientific research in fields as diverse as geography, geology, botany, and zoology. The "natural philosophers" of England's Royal Society, founded in 1660, were at the heart of these developments. Oxford scholar William Poole explores what...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_World_Makers.html?id=--Z4LNo40cwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe World Makers
