Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… also put himself among the ‘ great confluence of gentlemen’ who joined J ames Harrington’s Rota Club at the Turk’s Head coffeehouse ( Diary , I, 14). This club was debating republican models of government, but it proved short lived, … and statesmen implicitly raised his status. Across London, at the Royal Exchange in Cheapside and in the surrounding coffeehouses , he was also busy making himself known among the merchants who supplied the navy. This was often a rather … talks of new theories, both in formal meetings and when smaller gatherings of members and non-members met in taverns and coffeehouses. The Royal Society became a life-long affiliation: in the 1670s he would become a member of the society’s …
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