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… in the Eighteenth Century’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of 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 … of authority. As historian Peter Dear has argued, reporting an experience was a contribution to knowledge that represented a credential formerly supplied by reference to ancient texts; ‘ located, explicitly or implicitly, at a precise … was quite different. In the History of the Royal Society (1667), an apologist history of the society, Thomas Sprat presented the Royal Society as an egalitarian institution ‘settled of many eminent men of all Qualities’. Image Legend …
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