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      • Marie Boas Hall, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 December 2009
      03 October 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511622410
      9780521405034
      9780521892650
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511622410
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.486kg, 224 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 224 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, British History after 1450, History
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    In spite of all that has been written in the past decades about the first half-century of the Royal Society's existence, no one has so far examined just what took place at the Society's weekly meetings nor how far they fulfilled the expressed aim of promoting 'experimental learning'. Students of the early Royal Society have often taken its aim to have been fully expressed in the writings of such Fellows as Boyle, Hooke and Newton, aware that Hooke especially performed very many experiments at the meetings between 1662 and 1703, while he and others wrote about the necessity of doing so. This study attempts to analyse the content of the meetings in detail in order to discover how far and in what manner the aims of the Society were fulfilled in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This book for the first time explores the practices of the Society's Fellows, and shows how these altered between 1660 and 1727.

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