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… and Boyle to an eclectic, undiscriminating concern with 'curiosities’, natural and artificial, perhaps in tune with the coffee-house culture.’ 18 However, while there were notable changes, there remained consistent, productive activity. … while the society’s Curators of Experiments, Desaguliers and Francis Hauksbee, also gave public lectures across London’s coffeehouses and inns in the early eighteenth century. As the eighteenth century progressed, there was deeper involvement …
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