Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… an acquaintance’s views. Always curious about the latest ideas, Pepys 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 … close to the Tower of London) and new colleagues, who were also new neighbours. This provided a ready-made circle of gentlemen with whom to socialize and with whom to feud – increasingly so, as Pepys’s confidence in his new role and his … which received its first royal charter in 1662. With the King’s backing, empirical science was a fashionable pursuit for gentlemen. Pepys joined in February 1665, having been nominated by Thomas Povey, a colleague. Many of Pepys’s …
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