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… Like other London academies, the Royal Society conformed to eighteenth-century notions of sociability. In the spaces of Gresham College, and later Crane Court, a wide range of individuals came together to witness experiments and … who will pay the duties of the house, though they know not the terms of philosophy.’ 6 What connected the somewhat disparate disciplinary backgrounds of fellows was a commitment to experience as a new standard of authority. As historian … a credential formerly supplied by reference to ancient texts; ‘ located, explicitly or implicitly, at a precise point in space and time, the observer’s reported experience of a singular phenomenon constituted his authority .’ 7 The empirical …
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