Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… In the spaces of Gresham College, and later Crane Court, a wide range of individuals came together to witness experiments and discourse on matters arising from external correspondence. These social activities were integral to the processes of experimental knowledge-making. Places > Institutions Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Civility Cosmopolitanism … were concerned with ‘matters philosophical, mathematical, and mechanical’ and that their work, through ‘the authority of experiment’, sought to advance both the ‘science of natural things’ as well as ‘useful arts.’ 1 The Royal Society was a …
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