… At the same time, he had already established a network of correspondence that stretched across the continent of Europe. In 1657, Oldenburg and Richard Jones left to travel on the Continent, initially in France, and subsequently in …
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… Generation, was to have combined the innocence of the patriarchal Age with the knowledge and genuine refinements of European culture.’ 4 4 . S.T. Coleridge, The Friend ; A Series of Essays (London: Gale and Curtis, 1812), p. 161. The … the coasts of Africa for Fetisch worshippers- I had been almost tempted to say that the whole constitution of civilized Europe presents the same idolatry and for the greater part in less imaginative forms. It is the dire epidemic of man in …
… as Machines of Enlightenment,’ in William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer (eds.), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 69-93. Outside the home, experiments were also shown in the predominantly …
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