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… 2002), p. 266. 17 . J. T Desaguliers, A Course of Experimental Philosophy, second edition (London: 1745), p. viii-ix. Traditionally, historians have noted a decline in Royal Society activity in the eighteenth century: ‘the image is of a …
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