… mix of subjects the Royal Society were engaged in, there were also numerous articles on medicine, anatomy, experimental philosophy and antiquities. 4 . Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (London: Thomas Roycroft, 1667), p. 145. 5 … London (vol. 50, n° 1, 1996), p. 37. Although not present in its charter, the Royal Society gently promoted a Baconian philosophy, which emphasised observation and collaboration in scientific inquiry. Amidst a plurality of worldviews, from Hermeticism to Cartesianism, Baconian philosophy was employed as a ‘unifying emblem’ that gave the appearance of homogeneity to activities and interests which …