… 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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… 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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… Royal Society’s first secretary, Oldenburg initially engineered and oversaw correspondence across Britain, continental Europe, and the Americas, where he also solicited observations and publications for Philosophical Transactions and …