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… arising from external correspondence. These social activities were integral to the processes of experimental knowledge-making. Places > Institutions Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Civility Cosmopolitanism Fellowship France Gentleman … an astronomy lecture by Christopher Wren. The meeting was attended by twelve people including some - Wren, John Wilkins, Robert Boyle and William Petty - who were part of a group of men that met in Oxford to discuss similar matters in … and codify information on craft practices and figures like Petty, and Boyle envisaged tradesmen and philosophers working together and learning from each other. 6 . Angilae speculam morale (London, 1670), p. 45. 7 . Peter Dear, ‘Totius in …
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