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Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society.
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1991
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Philosophy Of HistoryThomas SpratHistorical ScholarshipScience StudyHistory Of ScienceLanguage StudiesClassicsIntellectual HistoryResponsible ScienceNew ScienceEarly Royal SocietyRestoration ScienceScientific ResearchInstitutional HistoryScience PolicyHumanitiesBusiness HistoryHistorical ReassessmentScience And Technology StudiesArtsModernity
Latitudinarianism and the ideology of the early Royal Society - Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society(1667) reconsidered an experiment in corporate enterprise - the Royal Society's Committees of 1663-5, with a transcript of the surviving minutes of their meetings between cabinet of curiosities and research collection - the history of the Royal Society's repository a college for the Royal Society - the abortive plan of 1667-1668 towards Solomon's House - rival strategies for reforming the early Royal Society promoting the new science - Henry Oldenburg and the early Royal Society early problems in professionalizing scientific research - Nehemiah Grew and the Royal Society, with an unpublished letter to Henry Oldenburg science, technology and patronage - Robert Hooke and the Cutlerian lectureship. Appendix: Reconstructing restoration science - problems and pitfalls in institutional history. Bibliographical essay: recent studies of the early Royal Society and its milieu.