Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… also put himself among the ‘ great confluence of gentlemen’ who joined J ames Harrington’s Rota Club at the Turk’s Head coffeehouse ( Diary , I, 14). This club was debating republican models of government, but it proved short lived, … 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 merchants who supplied the navy. This was often a rather … talks of new theories, both in formal meetings and when smaller gatherings of members and non-members met in taverns and coffeehouses. The Royal Society became a life-long affiliation: in the 1670s he would become a member of the society’s …
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