Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal SocietyFor anyone interested in the scientific revolution these essays are compulsory reading. HISTORY A fresh view of the formative years of the Royal Society. `Hunter's reputation as one of the foremost students of Restoration science in England can only be further enhanced by this volume.' NATURE |
Contents
Latitudinarianism and the Ideology of the Early Royal | 45 |
the Royal Societys | 73 |
Minutes and Reports of Committees of the Royal Society | 102 |
the History of the Royal Societys Repository | 123 |
the Abortive Plan | 156 |
Contributions promised towards the College | 180 |
Rival Strategies for Reforming | 185 |
68 | 203 |
The Authorship of Royal Society Miscellaneous | 239 |
Henry Oldenburg and | 245 |
Note on Oldenburg and Millenarianism | 257 |
Nehemiah Grew and the Royal Society with an Unpublished | 261 |
Robert Hooke and | 279 |
An Unpublished Cutlerian Lecture by Robert Hooke | 337 |
Problems | 339 |
Recent Studies of the Early Royal Society | 356 |
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