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… Mots-clés Civility Cosmopolitanism Fellowship France Gentleman Science On 28 November 1660, the first Royal Society meeting took place at Gresham College following 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 … as a metropolitan corporation’, The British Journal for the History of Science (vol. 52, n° 2, 2019), p. 249-271. Meetings were the main social activity of the Royal Society. According to the Royal Society statues, these meetings were …
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