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The Fellowship: The Story of the Royal Society and a Scientific Revolution
by John Gribbin
January 1, 2005Penguin UK468 pagesNo grades yet
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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society.
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