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Examines the influence of Newton on scientific thinking in the 18th century, and the rise of what became known as Newtonianism. Discusses ‘Principia Mathematica’ and ‘Optics’, which gave rise to the...
The foundation of the Royal Society, and the nature of the scientific community within which it functioned. There were few professional ‘scientists’ in the modern sense in late 17th-century Britain, but...
Describes the various scientific groups that began to form in 17th-century England: at Gresham College, London, in 1645 and in Oxford in 1657, culminating with the founding of the Royal Society in 1660....
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