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… the group 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 … connected the somewhat disparate disciplinary backgrounds of fellows was a commitment to experience as a new standard of authority. As historian Peter Dear has argued, reporting an experience was a contribution to knowledge that represented a … at a precise point in space and time, the observer’s reported experience of a singular phenomenon constituted his authority .’ 7 The empirical emphasis of this epistemic shift has also prompted historians of science to highlight the …
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