Author Purver, Margery.

Title The Royal Society: concept and creation. With an introd. by H.R. Trevor-Roper.

Imprint Cambridge, M.I.T. Press [1967]
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 Monograph Collection  Q41.L86 P87 1967  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 246 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The Problem of the origin of the Royal Society -- The Validity and significance of Sprat's History as a source -- A New System of Natural Philosophy I, Francis Bacon -- A New System of Natural Philosophy II, The Royal Society -- The Oxford Experimental Science Club -- Establishment as a Royal Foundation -- The Religious policy of the Royal Society -- John Wallis's Accounts of the Origin of the Royal Society -- The Royal Society and Gresham College -- The Invisible College -- The Royal Society and 'Pansophia'.
Gift Allen G. Debus Collection, 2016.
Subject(s) Royal Society (Great Britain)