Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… court scandal, and being seen there among nobles and statesmen implicitly raised his status. Across London, at the Royal Exchange in Cheapside and in the surrounding coffeehouses, he was also busy making himself known among the … who had their own favourite merchants when it came to awarding navy contracts. The connections Pepys established at the Royal Exchange, Whitehall , and Westminster Hall were networks which supplied him with a wealth of foreign, local, court … valued as entertaining company among a range of groups. One such group that attracted Pepys was the newly formed Royal Society, which received its first royal charter in 1662. With the King’s backing, empirical science was a fashionable …
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