...characterised her early history during the lifetime of Newton.2 Let us look at the subject from a ophy, . . . and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy." It formed a branch at Oxford in 1649, and received a royal charter in 1662, four years before the "...

...scientific research, experiments became the fashion. Bacon died in 1626, and somewhere about 1645, " Divers worthy persons inquisitive into Natural Philosophy...called the New Philosophy or experimental philosophy," agreed to meet once a week to discourse on these subjects. Their names were Dr. John Wilkins, Dr. John...

...and bitter hostility. The conflict waxed hot and continued for long. In the year 1660, a number of "divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy...called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy," formed themselves into a society, and nothing reveals so well this spirit of opposition, as the records...

...fréquent Académies". (Spingarn I, 198.) 1645 berichtet Wallis vom wöchentlichen Zusammentreffen „of divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy...parts of human learning, and particularly of what has been called the New Philosophy or Expérimental Philosophy ". Diese Zusammenkünfte fanden statt...

...free inquiry, which characterized certain meetings held in London during the next twenty years, of "divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy...the 'New Philosophy' or 'Experimental Philosophy' " ; and it was these meetings which, largely through the efforts of Robert Boyle, a devoted though...

...Anniversary at the Guildhall, July 16, 1912. gathered to London — I again quote contemporary words — " divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy and other parts of human learning," men whose imagination and enthusiasm had been fired by the " New Philosophy " then recently propounded....

...universities) beside the conversation of divers eminent divines as to matters theological, I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy...inquisitive into natural philosophy and other parts of humane learning, and particularly of what hath been called the new philosophy or experimental philosophy....

...often that it is unnecessary to do more in this place than recall the fact that about the year 1645 " divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy...called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy," began to meet together in London, sometimes in a private house, sometimes at other convenient places,...

...Universities), beside the conversation of divers eminent divines, as to matters theological, I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy...New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy. We did by aggreements, divers of us, meet weekly in London on a certain day, to treat and discourse of such affairs...

...and had received the curiously wide education of the times, the members of the weekly meetings were 'divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy,...called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy.' And there is no doubt that these gatherings of men of science are the ' invisible college ' of which...