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… in the 1650s. Granted in 1662, the Royal Society’s first charter stated that the group were concerned with ‘matters philosophical, mathematical, and mechanical’ and that their work, through ‘the authority of experiment’, sought to … Society. According to the Royal Society statues, these meetings were 'to order, take account, consider, and discourse on philosophical experiments and observations; to read, to hear, and discourse upon letters, reports and other papers … Establishing the New Science , 204). A few years into their foundation, the Royal Society established the Philosophical Transactions, a scientific periodical overseen by the society’s secretary, which was published monthly and sold for a …
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